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LEICA M-P ‘CORRESPONDENT’
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k-hawinkler
Well-known member
bradhusick
Active member
I am offering a service to any Leica owners: I will hand-rub the paint off in key areas. I am charging $10,000 per camera and $5,000 per lens.
Ulfric Douglas
New member
Lenny Kravitz : one-hit wonder.
This part of the blurb intrigues me ;
This part of the blurb intrigues me ;
In italics : do they mean they were sort of made somewhere near Germany?
k-hawinkler
Well-known member
Hit, which song?
Godfrey
Well-known member
I'm not sure I understand why Leica making a couple of special-cosmetics limited edition run cameras means "the world is going crazy."All I can say is - the world is really going crazy
Anyway I must admit this camera and lenses look gorgeous
It looks nice to me too. I don't really know who Lenny Kravitz is, but if it were a standard cosmetic treatment option, I might go for it.
G
stephengilbert
Active member
Does it come with ripped jeans?
Someday, in the far, far distant future, Leica will do something so stupid and insulting that even the fanboys will sneer.
Someday, in the far, far distant future, Leica will do something so stupid and insulting that even the fanboys will sneer.
ptomsu
Workshop Member
For me, who always tried so far to keep my cameras looking without any damages, this just feels crazy. Personal thing this is.
But I agree that if this was a standard cosmetic option I also might go for it.
Peter
Godfrey
Well-known member
Maybe someday, in the not so far distant future, people will understand that calling other people "fanboys" is an insult, and that doing so displays their own bigotry and prejudice more than anything about the people they're insulting.
G
Godfrey
Well-known member
I do the same ... Even my heavily used cameras only show small signs of use, and certainly nothing like the paint rubbing off and the edges brassing on this special edition. However, I do like how it looks, like a nicely 'antiqued' chest of drawers.
G
stephengilbert
Active member
Mike Johnston doesn't seem thrilled:
The Online Photographer: Not So Cool New Stuff
And it's less than $25,000: http://leicarumors.com/2015/02/24/l...ted-edition-camera-officially-announced.aspx/
The Online Photographer: Not So Cool New Stuff
And it's less than $25,000: http://leicarumors.com/2015/02/24/l...ted-edition-camera-officially-announced.aspx/
Ok, I don't personally like it. I thought it was going to look different when I read the rumour. Leica should have taken a page from Panerai's limited edition hand-book when it came to making something brass (see PAM382 "Bronzo").
Anyway, you guys can't be serious when you say you don't know who Lenny Kravitz is. I mean, he's not been active for a while (album wise), but he's pretty talented.. Well beyond platinum status in a time when musicians weren't manufactured and **** like platinum mattered.
Anyway, when my cameras start to look like that, I sell them off and buy new ones. I buy black cameras for a reason.
(Note to self... Become famous, shoot with Leica, have them build you a custom camera.)
Anyway, you guys can't be serious when you say you don't know who Lenny Kravitz is. I mean, he's not been active for a while (album wise), but he's pretty talented.. Well beyond platinum status in a time when musicians weren't manufactured and **** like platinum mattered.
Anyway, when my cameras start to look like that, I sell them off and buy new ones. I buy black cameras for a reason.
(Note to self... Become famous, shoot with Leica, have them build you a custom camera.)
Jorgen Udvang
Subscriber Member
I have an even better offer:
I will personally use your Leica camera, preferably with a Summicron 50 APO, for a period of 10-15 years to give it a genuine "Correspondent" look. In the meantime, I'll let you use my Olympus OM-3 that already has this look. All this for a super low price of zero dollars
Jokes aside; this was bound to happen. In the "old" days, real cameras looked used. Nowadays, people change cameras too often for that to happen, and the result is that Leica can make a few bucks rubbing some paint off one of theirs. It's sad and a waste of resources, but the camera industry is not the only one.
Godfrey
Well-known member
Absolutely serious. I'd never heard of him before.
I've never been accused of having my thumb on the pulse of popular culture...
I know who Felix Cavaliere is, however. But only because he happens to be my cousin.
G
Indeed, and a waste of a self parody for those of us whose Leicacentric-humour has long gone.
............ Chris
that watch is hedious! sorry if you bought one. but... it looks so bling bling