tom5 Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 A colleague just gave me an article from Forbes magazine, April 17, 2006, pp 60-64, that shows Leica M cameras being assembled and checked. It is interesting but has some errors such as identifying an MP as an M7 and saying that the M7 price includes only a basic lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Yeah, it does include a basic lens -- the viewfinder... Oh, you wanted to take pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Williams Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 The website has an 'abstract': Photo Essay Analog Vision Amanda Schupak, 04.17.06 'For $800 you can get a Leica compact digital camera with 8.4 million pixels of precision. Another $3,000 can buy you the latest model in the Leica M series of film cameras, sold since 1954. Leica, a 157-year-old German firm whose camera division went public in 1996, makes its old-style technology into a selling point. The 1,500 parts in an M7 35mm viewfinder camera are assembled entirely by hand. The "handcrafted" selling proposition saved the Swiss mechanical watch industry; maybe it will keep the Leica M7 going into the era of gigapixels.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendell_kelly Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 The Leica photoessay was shot with a CanonEOS-1Ds; so far as one can tell, using only one lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirk-san1 Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Leica "pixels of precision"... now there's a new marketing term. Better trademark it quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terence_mahoney1 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 With a bit less spin...</p> <i>Leica, a 157-year-old German firm</i> (the majority of whose customers are aproximately half as old)<i>whose camera division went public in 1996</i>(and perched at the brink of receivership in 2006)<i> makes its old-style technology into a selling point. The 1,500 parts in an M7 35mm viewfinder camera are assembled entirely by hand.</i>(and occasionally re-assembled by their repair agencies after purchase)<i> The "handcrafted" selling proposition saved the Swiss mechanical watch industry; maybe it will keep the Leica M7 going into the era of gigapixels.'</i> (of course there is no consummable item, with an enormous and mortally-wounded infrastructure, essential to the operation of a mechanical watch, thus infantile to pose the analogy.)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd_k. Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Mortally-wounded infrastructure? Did I miss something or did Fuji stop selling film and Frontier Printers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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