[Leica] Leica on Facebook

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Buy it for me and I'll promise to take it to Honduras during the rainy
season ;-)

Tina

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Here is something truly ridiculous from Leica (on Facebook). The ridiculous
> part is in the last paragraph--as if anyone actually buys this to use
> it...If I were rich, I would buy one as a gift for Tina, but on the
> condition that she scoff it within the first 10 minutes of ownership :-)
>
> Nathan
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> Each year, for the past 84 years, Neiman Marcus publishes ?The Christmas
> Book? with their best gifts for the holidays. They even have a section
> dedicated to the most decadent gifts of them all entitled ?Fantasy Gifts.?
> This year's fantasy gifts include items that go *vroom* (the 2011 Neiman
> Marcus Edition Camaro Convertible), *clink* (a Dale Chihuly pool
> installation) and our personal favorite *click*. That click is the Leica M9
> Neiman Marcus Edition of which there are only 50 pieces available.
>
> So what makes this edition of the M9 so special? The rugged Leica M body
> and matching Summicron-M 35mm f2.0 ASPH lens are finished in silver chrome,
> and the body is covered in luxurious brown ostrich leather trim with a
> matching ostrich leather strap. It is the world?s smallest digital
> rangefinder camera with a full-frame 18 mega-pixel sensor and
> interchangeable lenses to capture ultra-high resolution images. The
> high-resolution 2.5-inch LCD screen is protected by sapphire cover glass.
> Each body is numbered and your gift can be personalized with an engraved
> signature.
>
> A full suite of Adobe? Photoshop? Lightroom? 3 digital editing software, a
> personal letter from Leica CEO Alfred Schopf and certificate of
> authenticity, are included. The Leica M9 Neiman Marcus Edition can be
> personally delivered by a Leica photography expert, which would also 
> include
> a private training and orientation session to introduce new photographers 
> to
> the full Leica experience (only available in the continental US).
>
> So if you haven't written your letter to Santa yet, just send him The
> Christmas Book from Neiman Marcus and earmark page 43!
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
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> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>
> YNWA
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com