Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Frank; what do you figure the cost would be to remove the black paint and anodize topplate and baseplate black chrome so my nice new M8.2 would never show its brass base? ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Black, Be Welcome at home! > Hi Seth, > The M8.2 is black paint, the M8 was black chrome. > Frank > > On 7 Feb, 2009, at 12:48, Seth Rosner wrote: > >> Steve wrote: >> >>> I have plenty of mystique and more than a little cachet... >> >> Good on you, Steve; as for me, I can use all the cachet and >> especially all the mystique I can get. A lady of my acquaintance has >> said to me straight out, with a little more mystique and a lot more >> cachet, I'd be in the game. Quite naturally and with aplomb and >> dignity flying, I informed herself that I had no wish to play in her >> game. >> >> Ceci dit, I am on the verge of acquiring my first digital camera, an >> M8.2. Actually, it will not be my first digital; at the first LHSA >> annual meeting I attended in Boston 8 or 9 years ago, at the >> Saturday night banquet I won the door prize, a Leica Digilux or >> whatever they called it. Monday morning Rich Pinto called and said >> he had promised two good customers a Digilux but had only one and >> could he buy my camera, so it went away before I could get it out of >> the box. >> >> Now Lluis' problem has become mine: black or silver. Despite the >> fact that most of my M lenses are silver, my user M6 is black, in >> fact it is all-black, including a black 'Leica' dot - don't ask how >> I did that!. I've even thought of having my two most frequently used >> lenses, the 35/2,8 Summaron and 50/2 Rigid Summicron blackened in >> Japan by Tom A.'s good friend, Shintaro Yaghinuma. >> >> P.S. Does anyone know if the black M8.2's are black paint or black >> chrome? >> >> Seth >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:23 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Black, Be Welcome at home! >> >> >>> >>> On Feb 6, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Sonny Carter wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> and that small group of us are in fact, quite partial to the black >>>>> M8's... >>>>> >>>>> if anything, this will add cachet to your mystique, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> My mystique needs more than cachet added! ;-) >>> >>> >>> I have plenty of mystique and more than a little cachet... >>> >>> now I need some talent, >>> >>> but I do have a black M8, >>> >>> Steve >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Sonny >>>> http://www.sonc.com >>>> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ >>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana >>>> USA >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1937 - Release Date: >> 02/06/09 11:31:00 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1937 - Release Date: 02/06/09 11:31:00