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I'll take my Leica and carve HCB's name on it and call it my homage to HCB. It will be one of a kind. Then it will be worth something..
 
Complete bullsh*t. I have a friend who offered to sell me his, as new, and complete in the box with Leica share for about $3800 if I remember correctly.
 
dll927 said:
Another comment: Gandy mentions, among many others, the Anton Bruckner commemorative edition.
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This gives me a great idea! The John Adams commemorative edition! The 33.4mm Incognitux lens, where the aperture is inconsequential, and takes the shape of anything you think it should, but is never there.

And a "Leica in China" edition body, featuring a minimalist frame selector, which goes only right, but goes left, and has an assortment of only one frame, which corresponds to the 33.4mm focal length. Instead of a shutter button, you have to pat it as you foxtrot. Great for street shooting.

Just in case... (c) Gabriel M. Aguirre 2006 (you never know!)
 
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gabrielma said:
This gives me a great idea! The John Adams commemorative edition! The 33.4mm Incognitux lens, where the aperture is inconsequential, and takes the shape of anything you think it should, but is never there.

And a "Leica in China" edition body, featuring a minimalist frame selector, which goes only right, but goes left, and has an assortment of only one frame, which corresponds to the 33.4mm focal length. Instead of a shutter button, you have to pat it as you foxtrot. Great for street shooting.
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Nice one, Gabriel but I'm waiting for the John Cage model with the totally silent shutter 🙂



Mark
 
markinlondon said:
Update.

A form of sanity has prevailed and the price is now £4,999. I'm still not buying it 🙂

Mark
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That's £96,000 off the initial price. I don't know if I can resist such a bargain 😀
 
ever since it started, leica has had a penchant for issuing commemorarative cameras...the M6 Ein Stuck with the Summilux lens was created a decade ago when Leica Camera A.G. became a public company and listed its shares on the Frankfurt stock exchange. The Ein Stuck camera has a photo of a Leica stock certificate on the camera and comes with a share of Leica
Camera stock...it is designed for collectors, as others have said, and also as others have said, the price is either wrong or inflated. But there are lots of Leica collectors to whom a six-figure price is no big deal...Leica probably will come out with a few more commemmorative cameras every once in a while...regards, bob
 
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dll927 said:
Another comment: Gandy mentions, among many others, the Anton Bruckner commemorative edition. Suffice it to say that Bruckner is a somewhat problematic composer to consider. For reasons known only to God, some of his symphonies, particularly the earlier ones, exist in several versions, and recordings can depend on which version the conductor chose.

There is nothing unusual about composers revising their works after trying them out. But the final version by the conposer is normally accepted as the 'standard' version. In Bruckner's case, not only did he himself make revisions, but later "editors" seem to have gotten into the act. So it can be a toss-up.
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As it happens not only am I a rangefinder afictionado I am also a Brucknerite and my son Anton is named after him. The reason for various versions of the Bruckner symphonies are revisions Bruckner made at the suggestion of conductors and publishers. Purists accept only his original version whereas others myself included tend to prefer the revised versions.
About 30 years ago or so a perfomance of the seventh symphony took place in Carnegie Hall. The purists and the revisionists waited for the point in the (I believe) second movement where a great climax is accentuated by a cymbal crash
in the revised (Vogel) edition but not in the Haas edition which sticks more closely to Bruckner's original version. The cymbalist played the crash and the purists started a riot which had to be broken up by the police who I'm sure were very puzzled by a riot at a symphony concert.
You would think this was a dispute over the merits of Leica glass vs. Zeiss glass.
Kurt M.
 
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