roger_michel Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 they are in the stores. anybody willing to admit they have bought one?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 I do admit I think they look cool. But that's as far as I'm going on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Hi Roger. The last issue of LHSA had one on the cover. Looked really cool. Kept staring at it,but no way am I falling for that collector/fondler bit again. I tossed the magazine pronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_mcbride Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 I fondled the magazine before I threw it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 hey marc -- if the magazine had that effect on you, WHATEVER YOU DO, do not see the camera in person. it is very fine indeed. you won't have to keep up the vigil long. i hear it's a limited edition -- limited strictly to correspond precisely with total worldwide demand + 100 pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_a. Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 not this time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake_tauber Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 I think you need to see a podiatrist if you have a hammertoe....OHHHH!, a hammertone. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 The hammertone has the same �leather� cover as the O-Series. This special covering is formulated to increase the tactile experience of the user by 37% and is, of course, stain resistant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 One already on sale on the Auction Site for #3,500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_layton Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Maybe I'm out of my skull - but yes, I've put down my deposit! Even more insane is how I'm treating my LHSA BP - I actually USE it! Yes - brass is beautiful! I photograph for a charitable foundation, and drag the BP around Ethiopia every year. In the Vermont winter I put it in my freezer (so the snow won't stick) and take it out into the worst weather imaginable! I'll do this also with my Hammertone. I'll ding it! I'll bump it! I'll even drop it a few times! (Jay is cringing, I just know it!) How will the hammertone like this? How will it wear? Who knows! Who cares! All I know is that I'm as addicted to using these cameras as I am to owning them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_macklin Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Can't buy Hammerite Paint in' Cuba North' these days.Domestic cartel TremClad iteration is very Soviet in quality comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 My Calumet 4x5 monorail is gray hammertone, has 5x more gray hammertone surface than the MP, and cost me $200 including an Ektar lens. I also have an eyelet press in gray hammertone which belonged to my Dad, I think he paid about $1.25 for it back around 1948. So I've got my gray hammertone fix covered. But I do hope Leica will feel righfully ashamed that they used bathtub strip material for the production MP's when they could've used the LHSA/O-series material and made them that much more beautiful and reminiscent of the M2/M3 which was their only real reason for devolving the M6 into the MP to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Guess I'll consider one as soon as I finish wearing out my M2 and M3 bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 "...as soon as I finish wearing out my M2 and M3 bodies." You'll wear out your keyboard first.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackers_. Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I thought you got that at 3am in the wrong alley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al henry Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Al Kaplan there is a Jewish saying "You should live so long". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 The last thing I remember seeing in Grey Hammertone was the guttering and downpipe on an old farm building. Actually, come to think of it, did'nt old 1940-50's dentist drill stands and dentist's chairs come with metalwork/legs finished in grey hammertone? And an old toolbox my father kept in the shed when I was a boy, I am sure that was finished the same. Yes, what a visual and tactile treat that will be on a Leica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Actually, come to think of it, did'nt old 1940-50's dentist drill stands and dentist's chairs come with metalwork/legs finished in grey hammertone? I've got a Wells belt-driven handpiece and a polishing lathe in the dental lab, which have gray hammertone covers over the motors, and they're both in current production. They don't say LHSA though but they probably take as many pictures as most of the LHSA MP's will ;>) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis_couvillion Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 A few years ago, I refinished an old, steel-bodied, 1931 National Duolian resonator guitar in two shades of hammertone grey. Still looks pretty good. But, this is definitely an industrial finish. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsr Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Hammerloid paint has been used on many machinery and appliance products for decades. My childhood home had a gas fired furnace in green Hammerloid. Sears and Roebuck made Machinist and Mechanic toolboxes in gray, perhaps they still do. Given the mundane applications of this finish, I fail to find it enticing on such a love object as the Leica M! Sorry guys. Best regards, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_sampson Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 My National Duolian guitar (a '38) has a dark brown wood grain or "piano" finish painted on the steel. Perhaps that's next for Leica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_moe Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Mark Sampson, are you the Matchless amplifier designer? Also, I just bought a hammertone hand trowell at Home Depot for $1.99. A whole doller less than the black paint version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob haight Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I think this camera will probably sell out if it isn't already. There is demand for this sort of thing which has not been satiated yet. I think $6700 for the set is just too rich for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I started building small electronics projects as a kid. The standard way to do this was (and is) to build them in blank aluminum boxes, or on a blank chassis, often finished in gray hammertone. So for me, hammertone signifies "cheap" or homemade. Another finish often seen on electronic gear was the wrinkle paint finish. Collins, Hewlett-Packard, etc. used that. So gray hammertone on a Leica-- a cheap finish on a fine instrument--just doesn't look right. Neither would wrinkle paint, although it does have a good non-slip texture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_sampson Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Mike Moe, I'm the industrial/architectural photographer. I wasn't aware that an amp designer was using my name- but I don't play electric, a National is loud enough by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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