Red dot 'relic'

[Elderly]

http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/LEI...

Shakes head in disbelief!

[Simpo Two]

Dear me, they're milking it aren't they?

'An elaborate wearing process completely by hand has carefully rubbed, scuffed and scratched the black enamel finish away in several places on both the camera and lenses to let the bright brass surface shine through. The look changes every time the camera and lenses are touched and begins new, personally written chapters in the story of their design.'

Shades of Harry Enfield's 'I saw you coming'...

[nellyleelephant]

I've just hunted down the price........£17,800!!

[K12beano]

Does Anybody Out There Even Care?

[Mr Will]

If I had the cash to spare I'd love a black enamel M-P. You wouldn't catch me paying extra for a pre-weathered one though!

[Penguinracer]

...and I thought "relicing" guitars was crazy, but this "purchasing ownership of instant history" thing is just getting surreal! Better just to buy second hand!

[GetCarter]

Happy to 'weather' some of my guitars and sell 'em

[Disastrous]

I found my grandma's old Boots the chemist, 35mm point and shoot in a drawer the other day. Lovingly finished in Taiwanese plastic, the lovingly worn logos show the careful passage of time on this modern classic. Let your hands add their own wear and watch this piece grow with your photography into a completely unique photographic tool and display piece.

Happy to bundle it with my own book - "Flash bd" - a powerful commentary on the way a normal but astonishingly self-obsessed man is viewed by the world as I subvert convention and turn the camera back on those who would turn it on me. In reality, it's just st pictures of strangers on city streets but it's black and white so definitely worth the asking price.

Happy to let the whole bundle go in a fantastic pleather 'Duckhams Hypergrade' carry-all for £POA

Thanks.

[Simpo Two]

9/10. You just needed to get 'juxtapose' in for full marks.

[Elderly]

Penguinracer said:

Better just to buy second hand!

My four old Nikon film bodies had thousands of rolls put through them but were not too brassed and dented as they spent a lot of their lives in soundproof blimps.
When I sold them on pBay a few years ago (below is a better condition example) they made a lot of money, probably because I still had all the original boxes with their packing, and instructions, many still in sealed bags .

[LongQ]

nellyleelephant said:

I've just hunted down the price........£17,800!!

Well, I would have been in the market for three of these but that price is just ridiculously low to qualify as meaningless extravagance.

Think I'll buy a Peter Lik instead and maybe an Aston Martin Vulcan (Was Leonard Nimoy in on part of the marketing deal timing for that?) or two instead. Obviously one of them will have to be expensively re-engineered for road use so that I can drive it up and down the access road of my country mansion.

The attracion of the Leicas, had they not been so cheap, is that everyone who might see them would think I was an avid photographer taking huge numbers of photos whereas, in reality, I could avoid all that tedium and the aggro of hiring assistants to process the stuff for me on the diamond encrusted Macbook Airhead with bespoke 6k screen. That would leave me more time to admire the Vulcans.