grahan_kilbey Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 What will leica do to commemorate 50 years of the M series? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Charge a lot of money. No...wait...that was this year. And the year before. And the year before. And... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 300 dollar key ring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Gold plated lense cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_rivera5 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Leica condoms. Comes with an escort of your sexual preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 And now for a serious response... My prediction is that Leica will produce a limited run of an MP-7. That is, they'll produce a limited quantity of M7 cameras configured like the MP (with traditional engraving, of course, in black paint only). The price? I'm guessing $4,000 (U.S.) for the body (with the limited quantity at 2000). I would look for such a camera in the spring of 2004. Remember, you heard it here first! “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph_barker Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 <p>Hmmmm. Interesting question. I rather like Bill's suggestion, but I don't find "black paint" on <a href="http://www.weddingsolutions.com/articles/anniversary.htm">the anniversary list</a>. Thus, I'd place a quarter-farthing wager on a <i>gold-plated</i> M, instead. ;-) </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 What was I thinking? I'm predicting Leica will produce a 50-year anniversary M camera people might actually use to take pictures! But my prediction stands (perhaps with some silver chrome models thrown in). After all, the first M3 cameras were all silver chrome. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 surgical red dot on the forehead, perhaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip l. Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 I think that we might just see a MPj and a M7J. As well as an ultra high end Mpj in gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Well, if a stock chrome MP with a leather cover and a leather strap and a carrying bag costs $8400 and commemorates nothing more than Hermes' turning Leica into a 3-ring circus parody of itself; and if a stock MP with a gray paint job commemorating the LHSA--for the third time--costs $4000, I shudder to think what the 50-year-M3 will cost. But I predict that it will be an MP with the M3-style raised-window top plate a la M6J. And I predict that Lucien will be the first to post the release announcement on every Leica-related photo forum on the internet, and Erwin will have a Testreport proclaiming it the best Leica ever and the only one to own if you consider yourself any kind of photographer. And I predict that I will have nothing good to say about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayton_p._strickland1 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Rumour has it deep inside the bowels of Leica-land that it will finally be a Leica M-D1. Made by Minox ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart feliciano Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 I predict it'll be an Unpainted Brass MP that comes with a Painting voucher for your favorite Premium Auto Painter shop (or Shintaro) Blue Metal Flake w/ Clear Coat! Matte Urban Camo for you street photogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel whitaker Posted October 12, 2003 Share Posted October 12, 2003 Well, after the introduction of the 'null serie' or model 0, I predict that the next step (backward) will be a $2000 Leica badged disposable camera (made by kodak), loaded with tri-x pan, naturally. The fact that it only lasts for one roll of film matters not, as it will be a 'collector's model', and thus will probably expose no more than 5 frames in it's lifetime (some of those by accident, due to the loss of feeling through the white cotton gloves supplied with the camera). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b1 Posted October 12, 2003 Share Posted October 12, 2003 A special III series, with the latest computational and multi-coated LTM lenses to match - - based on the premise that "We really didn't need to invent the M, as the LTM's are so much better." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart feliciano Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 I wish there was something like a TriElmar, only faster. Like a 28-35 f1.4 DuoLux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_rivera5 Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Bart, it'd be the size of a football! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart feliciano Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Curse those Physicists and their laws! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_brown4 Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the M3, I predict a re-release of the III-G with a whole range of screw-mount lenses. Just kidding... An MP with M3 style top plate, self-timer (no meter), and a fancy leather bag with matching 35/50/90mm lenses (with leather cases) like the 50Y50 Summicron, and a Leicavit. And, a shoe-mount external meter. And yes, the 50YM3 with have 35mm frame lines. Price, $13,500 for the kit, production, 1954 bodies, number sequentially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Hey Dan: I like it!!! It should be interesting to see what Leica actually comes up with. But the "MP-7" is my story, uh... I mean prediction, and I'm sticking to it. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film rules Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 I predict that whatever Leica does to commemorate 50 years, it will be deemed a step forward, as opposed to a step backwards, i.e., Leica 0 Series. However, the MP was touted as a step forward, as was the M7 so . . . now I am all confused. Whatever Leica does, it will definitely be better than anything it has done before and I will buy it to take better pictures of my wife and child! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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