Leica Price Increase April 1, 2021

[logan2z]

No, it's not an April Fool's joke, prices are going up next month. Film cameras are going up just $100, many lenses are going up by about the same amount. Digital cameras are getting a sizeable hit ($500-$700). Glad I'm an analog shooter

Details here:

https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2021/03/leica-price-increase-coming-april-1-2021

 

[Pieter12]

My heart goes out to anyone buying a brand-new Leica today. I feel your pain.

 

[Sirius Glass]

[gloat] That makes owning Hasselblads and lenses even more enjoying. Like the Leica lenses, the Hasselblad lenses are made by Zeiss, but even larger. [/gloat]

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

[gloat] That makes owning Hasselblads and lenses even more enjoying. Like the Leica lenses, the Hasselblad lenses are made by Zeiss, but even larger. [/gloat]

Leica lenses are NOT made by Zeiss. Leica makes its own lenses. There are Zeiss lenses made in Leica M-Mount, but they're actually made in Japan by Cosina and sold under Zeiss's name, not Leica's.

 

[film_man]

Leica lenses are NOT made by Zeiss. Leica makes its own lenses. There are Zeiss lenses made in Leica M-Mount, but they're actually made in Japan by Cosina and sold under Zeiss's name, not Leica's.

Do not feed the Hassletroll.

 

[Saganich]

Oh damn I was going to get a new M10 Monochrome, but that extra $700 is a deal-breaker.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

My heart goes out to anyone buying a brand-new Leica today. I feel your pain.

Mine doesn't.

 

[warden]

At prices like these you can buy 'em by the dozen for your easter baskets.

 

[Pieter12]

At prices like these you can buy 'em by the dozen for your easter baskets.

I'm going to your place for Easter.

 

[warden]

I'm going to your place for Easter.

In the introduction to one of Kurt Vonnegut's books (can't remember which) he told the story of an acquaintance whose first advertising gig was selling cheap straw hats. Her pitch: "At prices like this, you can run them through your horse and put them on your roses."

 

[Huss]

I am very happy to hear this as it makes the Leica lenses I already own worth more.

Keep raising your prices Leica!