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Don't mean to burst your bubble but there were approx. 5,000 to 5,500 of this lens made.

I could not figure out how to delete my "orphaned" comments on

pictures that had been deleted. Can this be done at all, or I have to

live with them forever?

This should be a lesson on "How not to ask a question". Brushing people the wrong way and insulting people's intelligence is never a good start. Admitting it and keeping it going is sheer stupidity. I would back off a long time ago if I were you, but fortunately for me : I am NOT you!

Does it mean that both jk and v are gone? Probably not, and will we see this kind of response again? Probably yes.

As Andy was saying : Buy a DS, cheap. Send it in for CLA @ Leica. Get a SS back ----> ??????? This is not a perfect world, ya know!

Alex, you used to be the perfect speller but you are now slipping. Need more coffee? Cheers ;-)))

Kevin, with due respect and full civility here, I re-read the subject line and the question several times. I do believe Beau asked for a <b>Leica lens</B>. No malice intended.

What irony! Someone asked what <B>Leica</B> lens to use to achieve the old <B>Leica lens</B> effect, and we came up with all these "NON" Leica lenses as a choice. No wonder www.Leica.com no long cite photo.net as an official link. You guys goofed.

Ten were made. There is one trading privately for a cool Euro 30,000. Interested? The lens is a 50 Jahre 50 Summicron. Black Paint MP6 is trading (privately) for about US$15,000 without lens, if you can find one. No Leicavit for anybody yet.<div></div>

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Steve, assuming your reasoning is correct, then the black MP should be offered in black chrome if Leica wants it to be a "werk camera". However, giving us a "half-ass" black paint job is insulting, it is neither here nor there. Lure us in with the glorious "BLACK PAINT" version, and then give us just some of it? I don't think so. I'd be much happier if they are honest enough to offer us a black chrome version. Suffice to say that I don't have one, and I won't have one. My black M7 is just fine as a work camera, or better then a pretentious black paint MP.

One more absurdity, and I think is a glaring insult to the consummers intelligence : The back door of the new MP is black chromed ! Try putting a new black paint lens on the MP, and it will look like you are putting a BP lens on a black chrome body. The difference IS that great. It is a real disappointment.

Just like you, I looked at both. For the LHSA, I believed it was handpainted and hand buffed. The MP is done with a different type of paint and robotic(ally) applied. You can tell by the 'orange peel'. There is less buffing (by hand), so it is less shiny, thus more cost saving. I wouldn't be surprised if Leica subcontracted the MP painting out somewhere in Japan. The difficult part now is to match it with a proper black painted lens. If you looked at any of the newer BP 50 or 35 cron, the paint is much glossier. So now you have a camera body with no lens to match. What a great proposition.

Much ado - about nothing

I think you guys had it wrong. You should look at this as a business opportunity that you missed rather than a joke. There is no joke at $42K.

 

Purportedly, the seller paid ~3K for the MP. He is laughing all the way to his bank. The winner is very happy because he has beaten all the serious Leica dealers/collectors from all over the world at that game. So he goes home happy. Meanwhile in Japan, if the camera is proven genuine, it will change hand very quickly for ~50+K. It is only you and I that are not lucky euough to be at the right time and the right place to snatch it for ~3K. We are the sorry ones. In the auto collecting world, this is called a typical "barn find". Don't think user vs collector. This is pure business. None of the bidders, successful or not, intend to keep the camera for themselves. A few of them were bidding on behalf of their customers. It is pure dollars and cents.

 

Try to get lucky next time. Open your eyes at the next estate sale, be knowledgeable, may be you will get lucky, too.

Mitch, how about giving everybody a break. it is saturday and so have it easy, don't be so harsh. might do you some good 2.

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Once I was told (thus I am not 100% sure) that all mirrors on SLR cameras are silver coated on the top of the glass. It is so fragile that even breathing on it may harm the coating. Therefore I venture to guess that by brushing / touching the mirror, one would leave an imprint on the mirror and irrerversibly damaging the mirror. My $0.02 worth.

Poor economy, threat of war and retaliation, no bright future in sight, unemployment, flood of new and improved digital techonogy. The list goes on and on....

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i cant believe you guys spending so much time arguing about something you dont like, you dont want to buy or dont want to pay. why dont you go out and take pix instead. is it snowing everywhere

doesn't anybody know how to get a life? leica leica all day, geeze....does anybody has to work?

didn't somebody else asked this not too long ago? what about a good search on the archive or ask mike

mike, your point?????

Duh......