Aoresteen Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Like an M7? Now here's something every Leica M7 user should bid on. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=30030&item=3823838355&rd=1 Can you imagine the customs duty you would have to pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricks Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 oh, that's only $4,450/each. and they all have the old VF style. great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin_shapiro2 Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Yeah dude. But they have flags. Really cool flags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike k Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Obviously whoever buy those cameras won't think of the custom duty cause their money has no "series". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 $4500 hm... 1. asph summicron 28mm, 35mm lux asph & summilux 75 2. xpan w/ 45/30/90 3. canon d1 mark2 4. nikon d2h w/ afs 17-35mm 2.8 5. titanium independent fabrication crown jewel with campy record on spinergy wheels or those ugly flag stamps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake_tauber Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 What am I bid...?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip l. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 I seem to remember when tis same seller said it was a once in a life time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricks Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 jake, that is fabulous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WM Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Jake, that is hilarious ! Now that would be worth at least $4500 !! Heehee ! Keep on shootin'..........Wee-Ming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small_aperture Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Like Chip I remember the same lot being offered a few months ago. I assume it's the same lot that never sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadge Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Hey Jake - Shouldn't that have been Al Kaplan's face on there? Oh wait a minute...now that I look again...maybe it is? :O) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d._p.1 Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 What I don't understand (apart from those silly flags) is why seller would use such a high starting price. Why not starting low, keeping a high reserve price? Apparently, seller is not really eager to sell? Why then the hassle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_brewton Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Have you ever SEEN one of those flag M's? They have to be for collectors because if you ever actually used one for shooting, the flag would rub off after several weeks. Of course, that's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 What I find stange about the collection is: (1) There are no Japanese or Portuguese flags. Japan and Portugal are two of the three countries that actually make Leica products. (2) There are no flags from Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, which represent a significant segment of buyers. Instead you have Luxembourg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoresteen Posted June 29, 2004 Author Share Posted June 29, 2004 I also wonder what the seller's ebay listing fees were, staring so high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diego_k. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 I had the chance to play a bit with one of the 10 Spain flagged M7 in the presentation Leica made. It fell down to the floor and rolled across the room (someone left it on the edge of the table and let it fall). The summilux then had a tight stop on the focusing but the camera didnt seem to be harmed........ if your gonna bid make sure this one aint the same one ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Jake, just curious, how did you get the rectangular image of Alf lined up on the M7 that's going diagonally across the frame? All the rectangle-making tools in PS seem to only work parallel to the frame edges, how do you rotate it off-axis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake_tauber Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Jay, Use the marquee tool to select an area, then right click on your mouse and you can use free transform to rotate, expand or contract the image to fit a space. There is also a perspective tool, but I didn't need it for this little joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Like this?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake_tauber Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Jay, There ya go!! "What, me worry?"...Al(fred) E. Newman, or Al Kaplan? Same guy? You tell me. Has anyone seen them both in the same room at the same time? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Jay, can you put little insets in my front teeth with that photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d._p.1 Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 J actually posted a picture... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 <<Maybe if Jay knew 1% of what he thinks he does about Photoshop he wouldn't be so down on digital...>> Please tell us where I ever claimed to know it all about Photoshop. Quite the contrary I have confessed ignorance of it many, many times. Photoshop is great for giggles like this and I don't mind using it when I *want* to. *Digital* OTOH requires that I *have* to use Photoshop, or settle for the in-camera "processing" to "sharpen" what the manufaturers are trying to bullsh*t me into believing is already as sharp as film. That's why I'm "down" on, not digital itself, but the scam the manufacturers and their marketing wizards are perpretrating on the photographic community which I am disappointet is so taken in by it. That and the fact all my favorite cameras are to be relegated to the rubbish bin if things keep going as they are. <<Jay, can you put little insets in my front teeth with that photo?>> Al, you have front teeth?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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