I hope you can find a quality used one that'll be with you forever, then the initial outlay won't seem so great.Leica M6 Film Cameras: Classics for Collecting or Creative Use The only reason your images may be flawed would be your technique not the equipment. MP are beautiful pieces of engineering in your hands giving you extra pleasure when using them. The MP holds it's value better than the M7 or I expect the M9 in the long run and if you use it a lot I suspect a Silver one will look less used than a Black Paint one given the same usage. Of course buying a £3000 new MP might have a much bigger loss should you need to sell in the short term. So a £400 risk on such a desirable item is not so bad. So if you bought a £2K used MP and had to sell it would cost you £400 because you should get 80% back. The way I justify these expensive purchases of Leica kit is to say, If I sold I'd get 80% back. Used prices have increased at higher rates than new. I see items like the 24mmf2.8asph is nearly 60% more than the price in 2005.
I have a similar difficulty with the prices of lenses. Oops sorry wrong forum for that discussion.) (Now you need to pay them over £150K + £100K expenses just to get out of bed. I was lucky I bought an MP for £1850 back in 2004. If I had to make the choice today I'd find it very difficult to cough up for the £3K even though the MP (or M7) are quality cameras. The problem for us these days is that prices have gone up over 50% in the past 6 years while salaries may have increased 15% if you are lucky not including perhaps 1 year without work in the past 6, or only theoretical inflation level pay rises. The M6 that I've seen seem to have a lower quality shutter speed dial. I'd also say the MP is made during better quality control times. The MP is also 1oz lighter than M7, not sure if it is lighter than M6TTL (Zinc top plate) or M6. The M6TTL ( and M7) have the extra circuit board for the TTL flash metering control and are 2.5mm taller. If you do need a meter built in then the MP has a better one that the M6 or M6TTL, i.e it should last for many films now the electronics has been improved. If you don't need a meter then a good M2 as Noel says is a very good option. If you are really poor an M4-2 is even cheaper I'll give you there is a large cost differentlal the M6 is new and is in short supply, the M2 does not have a meter. The clutch on the rewind is unecessary (for a MP) it would be nice on a M6 though.Ĭause I dont use the M6 meter an M2 is cheaperĭu willst die Bilder sehen? Einfach registrieren oder anmelden! its finder spot wont flare The only snag for me is no IXMOO (the Leica reloadable cassettes). Hallo Gast!ĭu willst die Bilder sehen? Einfach registrieren oder anmelden! the gears are smooooooothĭ) its finder spot wont flare and is brighter Please register or sign in to view the hidden content. Well the MP is nicer than a M6 by some margin, especially if you get a BP. When the MP was introduced, you could still buy an M6TTL new and the price differential with the MP was more like 20%. The differential is possibly also distorted by the fact that the MP can still be bought new and the RRP has risen strongly in recent years (along with the rest of the Leica range). In a age of multiple gizmos and absurdly cheap Chinese manufactured goods, there is something attractive about using a finely manufactured tool that is stripped of everything we don't really need.Īs far as second hand prices go, the price differential presumably stems from simple supply and demand.
More seriously, I think the answer is partly good marketing (at least when Leica was still actively marketing the film cameras) and the fact that the MP has a gestalt that the other 'modern' M bodies don't quite attain.