You may have seen this but...

...a spare M body perhaps?

-- Giles Poilu (giles@monpoilu.icom43.net), February 06, 2002

Answers

Alfie, do you have enough room on your credit card? ;-)

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), February 06, 2002.

Yes I believe in having backup bodies:

http://www.streetphoto.net/photo_of_the_week/wk52b.jpg

I use them all.

-- Steve LeHuray (steve@icommag.com), February 06, 2002.

Wow! I'll take them all!!!!

I could string them all up together to fire at once and never miss potentially flattering angle again.

Now all I'll have to do is go to the bank with my Colt Peacemaker to negotiate a "principle-free loan".

;-)

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), February 06, 2002.

A bit sad really . All of these cameras will never be put to use . Like having a platinum toilet and $100 bill toilet paper .

-- leonid kotlyar (kotlyarl@mail.nih.gov), February 06, 2002.

35 Leicas is actually a fairly small cache compared to some of the real collectors out there.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 06, 2002.

Fortunately, I have a drool-proof keyboard.

The ironic thing is that they probably all need to be CLA'ed due to lack of use.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), February 06, 2002.

Not one too many, not one too less.

-- Alfie Wang (leica_phile@hotmail.com), February 06, 2002.

If you count my M4, which is in semi-retirement, I have four bodies, but you can only use one at a time, right?

-- Tom Nutter (tmnphotos@erols.com), February 07, 2002.

Our Dutch seller did not list a M6J. Maybe because it really is the most beautiful of all those special series, and one to use. Otherwise, the listing makes me feel sort of sad as well.

Marketing induced "collectibles" contradicts alot of the genuine appeal of collecting. Accidental collectibles are much more fun and interesting.

I can imagine the conversation in a smoky bierstubbe of Solms: "OK, Herr Schmidt, we need to revive our next quarter's nett margins a little, what cheap tweaking would attract our loony collectors?", "Well, Herr Frick, I suggest 150 M6 classics engraved with "the digital future" and 1937 top plate mentions, with a bondi blue skin stamped with Euro logos. We could sell those for 5,000 EUR a piece..."

I must say that a lot of those pseudo collectibles are really ugly, and that many others are plainly boring (who wants to see a Benelux map on a top plate?).

But a couple are nice (black paint ones obviously).

-- Jacques (jacquesbalthazar@hotmail.com), February 07, 2002.

I can think of many other things ways I'd rather spend 100 grand on than some odd ball colection of unuseable Leica M6 cameras. Of couse, the bet is that the stuff will one day be worth 200 grand-which isn't to likely to happen in my opinion.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), February 07, 2002.

I own 2 leica M bodies and No back-up. Sometimes I need 2 cameras with different lens mounted. For example when shooting a concert or a play. No time to change lens.

-- John Elder (celder2162@aol.com), February 09, 2002.