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The serial numbers start with 1949, the year Mao Zedong’s communists seized control of the country. Priced at $199,900 yuan, the golden camera and lens come in a luxury wooden box. Honestly, we have no idea of what Marx, Engels or Mao himself would have thought of something as blatantly bourgeois as a golden camera that costs hundreds of times more than what the average Chinese worker earns in a month, but we have the sinking feeling that they might not have approved of the idea…
The limited edition is for 60 units and I bet Leica knows 61 collectors (and probably more) that want (have-to-have) one!you can hardly blame Leica for making them if someone wants 'em.
Exactly, and if they're making $20,000 on each of them that's a lot of money to go back into R&D. Just as long as I don't have to buy one myself.The limited edition is for 60 units and I bet Leica knows 61 collectors (and probably more) that want (have-to-have) one!
Yep, that black lens cap is a deal-breaker. If they'd had the good sense (and taste) to ship this anniversary model with a red lens cap (as Terry suggested), I'd have transferred 199,900 yuan to a friend in Shanghai and asked him to pick one up for me.
Hi GaryFor the amount of money they spent pulling this together, they should have brought out a digital R10....even if it was just a re-badged Nikon D3 with a Leica lens mount.
Gary