I wonder if this camera will ever sell. Stephen has been trying to move it for a very long time. Maybe if the price dropped to about 1/8 of the current asking, it might have a chance. It’s definitely a cool film camera, but we have to be realistic. Maybe they're just waiting for that one person who really see its artistic value and doesn't care about the price.
p.3 #5 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
Fred Miranda wrote:
I wonder if this camera will ever sell. Stephen has been trying to move it for a very long time. Maybe if the price dropped to about 1/8 of the current asking, it might have a chance. It’s definitely a cool film camera, but we have to be realistic. Maybe they're just waiting for that one person who really see its artistic value and doesn't care about the price.
$20K for a limited edition titanium M-A where the paint flakes off if you touch it makes $80K for this one-off hand carved (two years to complete!) piece of art that you can use a deal to me.
I just need that kinda cash lying around... But what lens would look good on it? My brass finish LLL 35 8E? This camera sorta needs an actual Leica lens.
p.3 #8 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
Fred Miranda wrote:
I wonder if this camera will ever sell. Stephen has been trying to move it for a very long time. Maybe if the price dropped to about 1/8 of the current asking, it might have a chance. It’s definitely a cool film camera, but we have to be realistic. Maybe they're just waiting for that one person who really see its artistic value and doesn't care about the price.
The engraving is amazing, but that wrap... ulch. It looks like a slab of dehydrated watermelon in a gilded Victorian-era frame.
p.3 #9 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
I voted matte black because I'm basic. A part of me wants to Alphaguard my 6700 and APSC lenses with the cobalt blue, but the closest I've gotten is adding the five kits to a shopping cart before abandoning it. Hopelessly basic.
That said, I think the Ghost M10P and Q2 are far and away the best looking cameras modern Leica's produced. Why the camera that's monochrome on the outside didn't get a monochrom edition in one of the offerings still mystifies me.
p.3 #14 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
If I had to pick one (difficult!), I’d have to say black paint. But for an M3, having recently bought one, I could not be happier to have this (conventional and conservative maybe, but rather pleasing nonetheless).
p.3 #15 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
I guess I dont get the brassing look, have black paint lenses, I’d rather they keep the paint from wearing off, beautiful chrome (MP) all the way rather than the beat up look. If the cost wasnt hideous, titanium would be it for me. Chrome looks great with black and silver lenses, and the chrome camera looks like old tech, indeed the film is, but in a new incarnation.
p.3 #16 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
Andrew CD wrote:
... But for an M3, having recently bought one, I could not be happier ...
M3 with a dual-scale rigid is what I call good taste, and the condition looks fab! Even the lens cap appears period correct, meaning brass. Leitz switched to alu around 1970 for both black- and silver-chromed lenses.
p.3 #17 · Which paint finish do you prefer for your Leica M?
flash wrote:
As long as it’s wearing to brass I don’t have a preference.
A negative of the safari is the paint is the hard wearing stuff. So maybe gloss black paint.
Gordon
That's surprising, Gordon. Almost every Safari listing I've seen shows noticeable patina. It's rare to come across a used one without some paint loss. I always thought the olive green enamel wasn’t particularly durable. Patina on glossy black looks great, but I think it actually suits the olive green even better.
