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Also in the article, which highlights a film only photoshop in Fitzroy (Melbourne suburb) there is also a spiel about Leica film cameras and about their new large camera shop.
The managing director, Ryan Williams, says that in 2012, Leica’s production dropped to only 500 film cameras a year globally,
but 12 years later the company sells that number of film cameras in Australia alone.
I was staggered by that statement. It certainly gives one an idea of just how dire things were, and in some ways, still are.
Henning, very interesting comments, it certainly makes one wonder if the remarks about Leica film camera sales in Australia by their Australian managing director, are part hyperbole, and part selectively chosen, or misinterpreted statistics.
And yes, it certainly is a huge number of very expensive film cameras for a country of 27 million people (March 2024 official Australian government figure)
Mick.
Australia has 3 Leica stores for 27 million people. Canada has zero Leica stores for 39 million people. I imagine 5 or 6 new Leica M film cameras are sold here a year.
I will endeavour to visit either or both of the Melbourne stores in due course, as I visit both locations a few times each year.
Allegedly they sold 5,000 film units last year.
Leica sold 10 times as many film cameras in 2023 than it did in 2015
Leica’s decision to bring back its classic M6 rangefinder on 2022 looks like it was a good one: the German camera maker ended up selling 10 times as many film cameras in 2023 than it did in 2…kosmofoto.com
Correct. And already mentioned here in this thread in posting no. 12.
With that production - and maybe / hopefully - a successor of the wonderful Leica M7 additionally in the future, and with the further increasing number of new excellent lenses for the M system by Leica, Voigtländer, Zeiss and others for the M system, film photography with the M system is in a very healthy condition. It is back. And that is very good for all film photographers.
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