New MP Black paint wear

Quite a while back someone asked for pics of how the black paint on a new MP wears down-

 

For those who might be interested:

 

Why all the wear above the viewfinder?

Thanks really awful. It'll take silver, thank you.

you can get a can of Rust-Oleum at Ace for about $5. comes in black

It's a strange wear-pattern. My MP does not show that much wear even after 2.5 years of continuous use. It's

concentrated mostly around the edges. Some people think it's ugly... I personally think it gives some personality

to the camera. I like it.

That area does seem to be one of the heavy wear spots for black paint Leicas, whether MP or not. Reportedly, the

MP paint is intended to wear off quickly; apparently to create a fast-track collectible. I would prefer they use a tough

epoxy finish that holds up for a long time. When it finally wears off, the camera has really earned the distinction of

being brassed--like Elliot Erwit's M4, pictures of which have circulated around the web.

That camera has been attacked with sandpaper - there's a bunch of stuff on forums about that particular body...

Yeah, I have had mine since not long after it came out, and it certainly does not look like that, even though I use it quite a

lot. On mine, there is wear where the fingers go -- the wind lever, the front of the body a bit, and the edges. That bare patch

on the top is pretty odd...whomever owns it must have a very rough, tight camera bag that they take it in and out of a lot!

<I>"That camera has been attacked with sandpaper..."</I>

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Tried the same thing with my D700, didn't turn out so well.

I knew that those add-on rewind cranks were no good...

Looks like they put the black on with a magic marker.

Am I the only one that thinks the brassing on this camera was 'faked'?

 

It took YEARS of use for <a href=" black paint M3</a> to look like this.

The only wear on mine after three years is on the end of the wind-on lever.

My MP is from the first batch of 500 and does not look burned out like this one does.

<p>The only time I've seen wear like that is when the camera is very old - e.g. Erwitt's M3 - or when someone's attempted

to wear the paint down with wire wool. I used to have an 1987 M6 with heavy brassing but in a very different pattern -

mostly along the corners and extruded edges - and it took 20 years and several owners to achieve that. There was no wear

on the top plate at all. Which makes me think the wear patterns on yours look too contrived to be genuine. And of course they're not

really in line with the camera's age; the MP is too new to have acquired those marks through normal means.</p>

Paint doesn't wear like that unless you wear sandpaper gloves. It tends to chip, or bubble - depending on the

chemical composition of the user's sweat. This one looks absolutely horrible and is obviously done artificially,

as pointed out.

Second the Rust-Oleum recommendation. Hunter Thompson called it the .44 Magnum of spray paints.

Whoever fakes normal wear and does it badly, i.e., not in the expected places is a fool.

It is a sand paper job for sure, I knew one person bought a MP and sand papered to brass it. very few crasy people are there

How about some fake "vintage" jeans to boot?