Just when you thought it couldn't get sillier.

[gb hill]

I wonder what it might look like on a Ralph Gibson signature MP? It's got a red covering you know.

Only 100 lenses made. Will be gone in no time.

 

[f16sunshine]

You just can't buy taste.

But you can always buy "a taste".... no guarantee that it will get you any 😉

 

[Chromacomaphoto]

So utterly ridiculous that it's almost a good idea. Almost...

 

[CameraQuest]

I can hardly wait for the matching red bodies and more red lenses.

on 2nd thought, I can wait.

 

[BillBingham2]

I remember when red colored product helped pay for medicine for those who could in Africa.

Too bad this would be part of that effort. I'm pretty sure there still are folks in need somewhere....

They will sell every one they make.

B2 (;->

 

[alan davus]

I bought a red bodied Panasonic GM5 about a year ago as a hiking camera. I love it, so easy to put your hand on. Where is it written in Law that lenses must be black or silver?...Not that I'm buying it though. Can't afford the normal edition let alone the red one.

 

[benlees]

60 years from now...

There's a red paint Summicron on ebay but I think it's a fa...

 

[FrozenInTime]

Is see no mention, but could the profits be going to the '(PRODUCT) RED™' charity ?

http://www.apple.com/product-red/

 

[BillBingham2]

I doubt it, but one can hope. Even a small chunk would help. Perhaps a second issue of 100 after the first are all sold, increase the price a grand and send all profit to Project Red.

B2 (;->

 

[ChrisPlatt]

They'll sell out quickly to buyers in Japan.

Chris

 

[konicaman]

Red lens - black tape over the logo...

 

[Roger Hicks]

Great idea. No-one is going to take it seriously. It's like the polka-dot neoprene lens covers (from Op/tech) I use on my Leicas. If people don't feel threatened, they are much less likely to worry about being photographed.

Cheers,

R.

 

[kuuan]

it's good marketing, a big portion of Leica customers buy a Leica as a life style accessory, for them the "unique" color and price (!) make very much sense and even we talk about it.
...
Leica lighter and Leica pen for 840.- each are out of stock, hurry to snatch the Leica keyring for humble 175.- http://leicastoremiami.com/collections/0-95?sort_by=price-descending

 

[vnukov_pk]

In FSU schools all if not black or white was silly to wear. Well, brown, dark blue, grey. But for gim - white top, black bottom.
This is the same FSU, North Korea mentality, while in the free world some us are living it is quite opposite.
Put red lens on the blue camera, wear red hat and red boots, smile and people will accept it. But acting like a creep with black camera, grey clothes and shades on the face, hood on the head is new act of silliness!

free world? heh.
on the subject - red lens is stupid, but it might work for some ppl. If it sells - why not.

 

[giulio stucchi]

"De Gustibus"...
I kind of like it and I prefer this to the black chrome (lux 50, cron 35) released I think last year.
Now, Canon and Nikon are releasing ugly looking DSLR since years...as I said, De Gustibus.

Giulio

 

[Roger Hicks]

In FSU schools all if not black or white was silly to wear. Well, brown, dark blue, grey. But for gim - white top, black bottom.
This is the same FSU, North Korea mentality, while in the free world some us are living it is quite opposite.
Put red lens on the blue camera, wear red hat and red boots, smile and people will accept it. But acting like a creep with black camera, grey clothes and shades on the face, hood on the head is new act of silliness!

It always amuses me that some Americans quote the proverb "The nail that sticks up is hammered down" as if rabid conformism were not quite as common as it is in so much of their own country.

Mind you, school blazers in the UK can often be relied upon for plenty of colour, often in the vilest combinations. This is from my old school, worn from the prep school, as here, up to the age of about 16 (in the VIth form, they were dark blue or black, I forget which).

Frances reckons it might be an anti-paedophile measure. See a jacket like that, and you don't even notice what's inside it.

Gym kit was all white, though.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Archiver]

Andreas Kaufmann has had his prototype for a couple of years, now. Honestly, I think it looks gorgeous.

http://www.reddotforum.com/content/...one-of-a-kind-m240-spotted-at-photokina-2014/

 

[lynnb]

Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.
- Google

Wow. With this lens you could do some war reportage and photograph tango dancers in Cuba!

I also have it on reliable advice* that red is the least attractive colour to insects, excluding a few butterflies and beetles (which have red receptors). So logically, this lens is intended for photography in the tropics.

*Google

 

[daveleo]

Reminds me of Andy Warhol's (alleged) comment ....
"Art is what you can get away."

 

[kuuan]

...So logically, this lens is intended for photography in the tropics.

*Google

...for digital cameras sure a point. A black digicam, filming a ceremony during a hot day at a beach in tropical Bali, heated up until it stopped working. Some internal electronic parts had burned, the black camera had become burning hot..while I, barefoot, when hitting unbearably hot, black sand was jumping and running for brighter grounds, the brighter the better. Extreme heat can't be good for a lens neither.