A "reissue" of a prototype rangefinder film camera? Who do you think would buy such a camera if Nikon did release it, Robert?
Nikon released the Nikon SP Limited Edition in January 2005 (only 2,500 sets in total) and many unsold sets were still sitting on camera store shelves 5-6 years later. In 2010, Fujiya Camera (a major Tokyo camera store) collected up a lot of the unsold sets and began flogging them off at less than half the original retail price just to get rid of them. I counted the sets in stock and noted serial numbers each time I visited. There were always at least 8 sets under the counter. Fujiya must have sold hundreds of sets at this hugely discounted price. Even at the hugely discounted price it took Fujiya Camera almost two years to offload all their sets.
The sad fact is that Nikon lost money on every reissue rangefinder they made, and the shops who bought them lost money trying to sell them. I don't see how Nikon trying to sell a "reissue" prototype rangefinder film camera would yield a different result from that.
