pallet fork Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Just spotted a Green paint m6 in a shop. Does anyone know what the going rate for something like this is? Seems quite hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Thankfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_byrd1 Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 That's a special edition for gardeners. There's also an all-chrome M6 for pimps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_hoffman Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Heh. Robert, you cracked me up. I think Tony Rose has one for something like $3,500.00 or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_hall1 Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 I bet that particular shop will give you the answer. BTW, that colour is "Olive" or "Safari" in Leica-speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 If there were a pimp leica, it would look something like <a HREF="http://www.cameraquest.com/camsnet/M42Gold.htm">this.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulr Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Any kacky colored lenses to match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_hall1 Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 FWIW, <a href=http://www.cameraquest.com/LM6G.htm>it</a> doesn't look that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 What's the going price on a can of green spray paint? Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 u.s. army edition...? inscribed by george dubwa himself? kool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_hoffman Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 The poor guy just wanted a simple answer... :^) Actually, the green looks quite nice in person, quite pretty. Hard to tell from the pictures though. Better finish than some of the recent black paint Leicas. No, I don't own one but I saw the camera up close for a minute or two once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidv1 Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Ya' reckon anybody actually uses one of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feli Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 It looks worse in the picture than it does in real life, but its still not my cup of tea. I once saw a picture of a Bundeswehr (Current German Army) M, which looked a heck of a lot better. It was a flat drab green. Not garden hose green. ;-) feli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallet fork Posted July 30, 2003 Author Share Posted July 30, 2003 Steve, thanks for the info. Only one real answer out of 12 responses. Hope this is not the typical s/n ratio on other subjects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_kan_th_rngren Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 The limited edition safari seems to be in the $3000-$3500 range (from my memory). There are also non-limited edition versions around, probably put together from spare parts for the safari. I saw one on ebay a while ago built from a M6TTL .58 (I think), with safari top and bottom, M3 advance lever and rewind knob from the Hong Kong company that normally sells the safari model. They put it together from a demo M6TTL and some spare parts. I believe it was just a tiny bit more than $2000. It actually looked kind of nice, like a green Bessa R2, but it was a real Leica instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 I like it. Price is too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 The limit is the supply/demand of the W/F set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 Will the green one "feel" different than the black paint one that you have? W/F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 The true test is how it looks after a few years of banging into other cameras hanging off the same shoulder, the wear under the straps, how nicely the baseplate scars up, the thumb rubbed area under the wind lever, kinda like the original 1950's vintage MP bodies look now, but green. Makes you wonder if anybody will actually get one to that point of cosmetic perfection, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo_simonis Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 The true value of the different colored Leicas is something different: I got the impression that the green one absorbes the atmospheric vibrations slightly better than the black or chrome one and therefore produces sharper images at this tiny little upper left corner of the pictures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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