Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At a LHSA meeting in Boston in October 2000 the guest slide shower was a well known Leica Expert Jonathan Eastland the guy who wrote the Leica Compendiums for both the M and R systems and expert Nautical photographer and writer of all kinds of photo books with his pix in them. A guy came up to a bunch of us sitting in the lobby of the hotel in front of the fire and showed us his wonderfully brassed Leica M, maybe it was an M2. We all oohed and ahed Eastland asked to take a look at it. He turned it over in his hands and rather politely asked if he'd green clothed it. The fellow sheepishly nodded that he had. First I'd heard of it. People attacking their cameras with that 3M abrasive green cloth that that guy who invented it won the Nobel Prize for physics inventing. We never saw the guy again. It seems in some cases a brassy look can actually INCREASE a value of a camera body. Plus it gives the idea that you might actually USE the camera. Then you have to hire a person to shoot and print a bunch of pix for you that you can carry around in your side bag and show people. On 2/24/15 1:08 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote: > A Yorkshireman would have to change his motto from > "where there's muck there's brass" to "where there's > brass, there's brass" > > A hell of a lot of brass for camera that looks knackered. > > Good for a new description on eBay though - "The camera in > is in perfect working order, but is cosmetically > extremely Kravitzed" > > Cheers > Douglas > > > On 24.02.2015 19:00, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> Stirred, perhaps shaken, but not pre-distressed? >> >> >> On 24.02.2015 18:26, kyle cassidy on the lug wrote: >>> So it seems the pre-distressed Leica is $24,000 >>> >>> Obviously its target audience has much better things >>> to do than take photos. >>> >>> In other news, I saw a photo of Daniel ?James Bond? >>> Craig holding a Leica on a set of the new movie. >>> >>> If there?s a pre-shot edition with an aesthetic >>> bullet hole, I might have to buy it. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/