Why an index
The used camera and lens market is global, fragmented, and unforgiving of mistakes. Every system has its own: names that hide the version, prices that vary by thousands between versions, stock scattered across dealers who never list on a marketplace. An index fixes that, one system at a time.
Know exactly what it is
Most systems have lenses and bodies whose versions look identical in a listing title and differ a great deal in value. Each index resolves every listing to the exact version — product codes, serial ranges, version cues, and a review pass by someone who knows the system — so you are buying the thing you think you are buying.
The whole world's inventory, not one pond
Specialist dealers in Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Montreal, Sydney and Helsinki, plus independent sellers held to a high feedback and proven-volume bar. Stock that never reaches a marketplace, in one search.
Know what it is worth
Every copy for sale globally, side by side, with the price range for the exact version and a growing record of what copies actually sold for. Price context on every page.
Fresh, verified, priced all-in
Listings are re-checked against every source daily and again at the moment you buy. Prices show in the seller's currency and in dollars, with the exchange buffer disclosed. At checkout one open-book number covers the item, the seller's shipping, import duty, our fee and sales tax.
One counterparty
Buying from a shop on the other side of the world should feel like buying at home. Payment, tracking and the stated return policy sit with the index, not with a stranger.
One index per system
A Leica buyer and a Hasselblad buyer need different expertise, different sources and different version knowledge, so each system gets its own index with its own catalogue and its own editors. They share one engine, one checkout and one network. Each index explains its own system on its own "Why" page; this page is the case for the network.
Read why LeicaIndex, the first index →