The ugliest Leica M7 you'll ever lay eyes upon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...f=pd_bbs_3/103-6976084-9334240?_encoding=UTF8

 

Looks good to me. I have two that look just like that.

 

don't you think its sexy ?

=bob=

 

Ah...
The typical Leica "user"...who is more concerned about how nice it
looks...than whether one can actually capture images with it.



Now to all of you REAL Leica **users**...you can disregard this post.
But lets face it, folks.
-The ratio of Leicas that are actually used...compared with those that are
merely "worn" isn't all too positive.
Its a shame, too, because they really are nice pieces of equipment. It just
strikes me as funny how many comments about them have to do with their
color...their leather...their emblem...etc.

There are other examples of this phenomenon, though...so Leica doesn't have
a corner on this...
Example:
I have a Sony laptop (something I never imagined wanting to own due to their
irritating business practices and horrid customer service) and the Sony
forum (at notebookreview.com) has a high ratio of people who spend a good
deal of effort talking about how to get the preferred "color" this, and the
preferred "casing visual effect" that...none of which has anything whatever
to do with the technical capabilities of the units!
The funny thing is...the Sony SZ Premium notebook series is one amazing
machine, with huge and unique power to suit my purposes like no other laptop
on the market. -It's just that a lot of Sony buyers don't seem to care
about that for actual use. They are too busy comparing (literally!) how
much attention it gets them at Starbucks. -They actually POST about this!!


Methinks there are a lot of Sony notebook buyers with Leicas around their
necks...but no film.
Do I paint a grim picture...or do I exaggerate?

-Mark²

 

Let's see: My M6 is covered with gaffers tape, so that no magic names or
red dots are showing. Result: Looks like some old camera held together
by tape (very nonthreatening).

On the trek I just came back from, putting the 90mm lens back in the hip
belt, I missed and the 90mm took a nose dive from waist height onto a
concrete sidewalk, landing on the capped rubber shade. No apparent
damage at all (apart from a slightly mangled lens cap), though I might
get the centering checked...

 

Atta-boy!!!!
As I said near the top..."Now to all of you REAL Leica **users**...you can
disregard this post."

 

Hmm, why don't you just get a FED or Zorki badge to glue over the top, and
preferably gold plate the camera and claim it was a 1931 Olympics special
edition?

 

Reminds me of the guy who owned a bike shop in the Palo Alto area of
California. He had a very nice hand made frame bike, but he painted it with
khaki colored paint, applied by hand with a cheap brush, so it looked like a
cheap Schwinn.....That way, it's chances of being stolen were markedly
diminished......

 

I love it!
-Sign of a real user/non-poser.

 

Define "real" in this context. Maybe the "real" Leica user is as you
describe ;()

 

Real, as in, "those who actually use them as photography tools."

 

Here's a Leica that I would personally pay a lot of money for:

http://www.leica.co.za/Photos/marshalls Leica.jpg

Not my picture, but it is one of the cameras used by legendary rock
photographer Jim Marshall. Must be worth a fortune...

 

Mark² wrote:

THe daft thing was, I saw a Russian Leica copy, gold plated, with Nazi
emblem / Berlin Olympics, being sold on ebay as a fake, so no complaints to
the seller. I thought it might be nice to have such a bit of tat if it was
cheap. It went for over £100! Why?

Pete

 

Give me a mint one and some emery cloth and I can sort one out for you...

 

Just as shiny new cameras don't necessarily take better pictures than
worn cameras, neither do badly worn cameras take better pictures.

 

Er, but it won't have the same historical value. Imagine the scenes
Marshalls Leicas must have been witness to. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,
Johnny Cash... A look through his book "Not Fade Away" gives you some
idea.

I would have it encased in a lead glass box with a single spotlight
illuminating it from above.

 

Darn, it appears they changed the picture. It used to show the Pentax
SLR. So, this post doesn't make any bit of sense now.

 

DD wrote:

Blimey, its only a worn out camera...

!

 

Mxsmanic wrote:

Just to be clear, is it badly worn or well worn? English is a funny
language.

Pete

 

Very true...and one of the very issues I'll be trying to explain to Ukranian
students as they learn English. I'll be traveling to Ukraine in a couple
weeks to help sort through these things...

English is a very difficult language because of meaning-shifts like
these--which seem nearly nonsensical to the learner.