Selling my M8 Kit!!!!

Ted,

Many people will be all too happy to gloat and tell you they told you so. Anyway, sorry to hear you have to sell a camera and gear that you seem to enjoy.

Regards
Steve
 
I think the fact that the original post has the 'Roll Eyes ... Sarcastic' :rolleyes: smilie after it indicates he's not serious! :rolleyes:
 
Sailor Ted said:
See siggy below as it's all for sale- in one lump sum.

Ted :rolleyes:
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Will you sell before or after buying some of Jorge's lenses ? :)

This is just getting out of hand ... we need a contest or something ...

Roland.
 
I guess I'll be next: selling all my Leica gear to go hunting.

Or, better yet, to start a cat-welfare foundation named after my still alive cat, Ben.

Any takers, Ted? :)
 
The day I sell all my Leica gear, please have me committed to a good clinic. Or hook me up with a benevolent loan shark; I'd either have to lose my marbles or have pawned them to do that...
 
SolaresLarrave said:
I guess I'll be next: selling all my Leica gear to go hunting.

Or, better yet, to start a cat-welfare foundation named after my still alive cat, Ben.

Any takers, Ted? :)
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Yeah come on Ted ... fess up ... are you yankin' our chains or what? :confused: :)
 
I have alluded to, and spelled out what many photographers really want in a camera- one that gets it right nearly every time. And if we’re all honest with our selves (sadly myself included) that’s what we’re all really looking for- eye popping shots 99.999% of the time. Well it seems my old buddy Steve Jobs is a lurker here on RFf and sent me an email after reading a few of my posts; much to my surprise. Now I had thought a camera like this would come from Canon but it seems Steve, an avid photog- (who knew?) Is working on a passion outside of iPods and Apples. In conjunction with Jim Norrod of Segway, and Raytheon Corp they are developing the ultimate photographic tool- the iEye.

The iEye will be based on the Segway platform that is to say it will be mounted to a modified Segway. The camera is being developed by Raytheon Corp and will features a seven lens bayonet mount much like the rotating barrels in an A10 tank buster or a more commonly understood rifle, the Gatling Gun. Five of the lenses (Raytheon developed these in conjunction with Schneider) will be primes with one wide zoom and one telephoto zoom to fill in the shots missed by the primes. The computer will of course be from Apple and will be fully compatible with both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

The concept of the iEye is devilishly clever and I’m still somewhat in awe as this will certainly be a life changing event for me and many other photography lovers (you know who you are). The camera is programmable to emulate any photographer or photographic style you choose for example if you want to compose pictures like that of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christopher Anderson, Erich Hartman (or Kartman from South Park), Alex Webb or Annie Leopwitz, and on, and on, and on just select the photog from a pull down menu located on the cameras computer or on your laptop via wireless the camera will then create images in the style of your choice until a new photographer or group of photographers are chosen. And with new photographers and photographic styles being added every day there’ll be lots of fun for the whole family.

And speaking of the family I really like what they’re doing for the kids. Somehow they’ve been able to program an algorithm that conveys what pictures would be like if taken by Barney, Big Bird and The Little Mermaid. As a test, Steve asked me to choose from several pictures which ones I thought were taken by Big Bird or The Little Mermaid and in every instance somehow I KNEW. And to keep the iEye fresh, It has a sophisticated “learning” algorithm to study works from photographers not on it’s list; so let’s say you wanted to emulate a photographer like captainvideo, all you need do is select his gallery on Flickr on your iEye’s wireless web browser and he’ll learn the compositional style and not only take images in the photographers style of your choice, but iEye will even handle the post processing and prints up to A4.

Now for the fun part. Let’s say you want to shoot some Ansel Adams like early morning shots at your neighborhood park. Not a morning person? Not to worry- in fact you don’t have to be any kind of person ever again! Just select Ansel Adams from the photographic style pull down menu, select the time of day you would like your masterpieces snapped, then go online through your iEyes online browser to Mapquest and designate your iEye’s geographic area of coverage and time table parameters. Now go to bed and sleep in. While you sleep your creative vision is hard at work scouring it’s internal database of satellite shots looking for the best photo ops for tomorrows big event. Then at the preselected time only your creative genus could muster, your little iEye (well not so little in fact it’s bigger then C3PO) is off whirring through the neighborhood on it’s way to express your creative soul and if you selected “shoot any target of opportunity” from it’s myriad of system preferences (and you did because your just that kind of artist) you’ll get a few surprises later with your morning coffee.

Now let’s say you live in a rough neighborhood or you plan on visiting one (this will be a photojournalist’s best friend). Have your iEye equipped with the ultimate theft and vandalism deterrence- a 1.5 million volt Tesla Coil! No matter from what angle the hoodlums come at your iEye they'll get a non lethal (just) bolt of **** there pants and crawl away after they’ve wet themselves jolt. And best of all, whenever the Tesla Coil is activated it takes photos of the whole event for the ultimate in hard-core street photography!

Not a city photog you say? iEye’s got you covered. Order iEye with the optional quadruped motion unit- perfect for climbing stairs or when ever the terrain is uneven. And of course for such photographic opportunities as these you can specify the outdoorsman lens package that will substitute the wide and normal primes for telephoto primes that no telephoto zoom can match.

See Europe (or Baghdad) and amaze your friends with images that only you can create. Take your iEye with you where ever you go- to the beach (never again be embarrassed to take all those bikini clad co-ed shots you know you’ve been dreaming of), the supermarket, or on your next Euro holiday. iEye will not disappoint with pictures of stunning clarity, compositional supplication, and a flare only you can program. One caveat thought. Like the Leica M8, the iEye has but one battery and it’s HEAVY. So heavy in fact that it’s not possible to remove it. So just as with the M8 you’ll have to get your projects done on one charge, or take a break for several hours at the hotel (at least with the iEye you’ll never need to leave your hotel) for a recharge.

Now obviously all this technology and functionality doesn’t come cheap so I’m selling my Leica kit (Hell the Leica and all other cameras will soon be obsolete) for the non-refundable down payment. Later this week I have a meeting with my banker for the loan so I can get on the waiting list early but I’ll most likely need to sell my sailboat to pay the camera off (well most of it) to avoid interest charges on the 30-year loan.

So in summation we will finally have the camera everyone has been secretly longing for. Now if the camera takes a truly great shot there will be no debate- it was the iEye that gets all the credit and of course when an image is not to our liking it’s the iEye’s fault. Yes with the iEye only you can determine it’s creative genius.
 
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Hmm. Any chance I can get a loaner? I mean, we wouldn't want the early cameras to fall prey to the Purple Hunters, would we? ;)

If Jobs is your friend, why not ask him for a test drive, before dropping down all that $$$ for a downpayment?
 
Ted ... all the info you have given about this camera is wonderful but the thundering silence over it's colour rendering abilities worries me ... especially with black synthetics! :confused:
 
And here is that camera you speak of .....

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>"I'm buying an M8!!!!!"

Jaap --

LOL! Good one!

But only in an alternate universe, I'm afraid.
 
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