I know a repair tech, formerly of Olympus, then C*n*n, who returned to Japan
to start a Leica shop there. I run into him at our favorite sushi bar
(Sushi Sake in Richardson, if you're ever in north Dallas) every few years.
Says that several months a year he makes a circuit world-wide buying up
everything Leica he can find, then spends the rest of the year in Japan
rebuilding and selling them to collectors. He says he's becoming quite
wealthy.
> At a local monthly camera show I've spoken to a fellow who has a business
> connection going the other way... he buys mostly Leica and Rollei, stuff,
> and other 'classics' and sends them to a partner in Tokyo for resale. A
very
> nice Japanese gentleman, always wears a suit and tie, unfortunately I
can't
> help but feel that some of those Leica's should have gone to me, even
though
> I couldn't buy them right now...
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
> on 8/19/04 10:37 AM, Dean Tyler at dtyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I read that article and found it found it interesting. Maybe I should
get
> > into the import/export business?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Walt Wayman [mailto:hiwayman@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:36 PM
> > To: Oly List
> > Subject: [OM] One man's trash is another man's treasure
> >
> >
> > In the September issue of Shutterbug there's a piece on the used camera
> > market in Tokyo. I find it a little amusing that any camera considered
a
> > "classic" there has to have been made in Germany, or at least in Europe
or
> > the U.S. (Yeah, I'll take a Medalist, please, if you've got one.)
Looks
> > like just more of the grass is greener, familiarity breeds contempt, we
make
> > it here and we know it ain't special, etc., etc.
> >
> > There also was mention in the article, however, of ubiquitous
> > "Nicanolympaxes." Since they're so common, they should be cheap. Could
the
> > next person in Tokyo please pick me up one of those?
> >
> > Walt
> >
> > --
> > "Anything more than 500 yards from
> > the car just isn't photogenic." --
> > Edward Weston
>
>
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