Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, I also saw this thing at Mike's Camera in Boulder. Vahe even wanted to put it around my neck to improve my appearance. Naturally, I declined. I feel more natural with my beat-up M5. Anyway, this Bruckner M6 is truly Victorian. It is the ugliest M6 I have ever seen. I would not want it at any price, even for free. It would most certainly frighten my dog Fluffy who is a Pommeranian. (Actually, my daughter thinks that he is her dog.) I am sad to see such monsters (Bruckner M6, and the leik (sic))for sale. Really, I do not understand why someone would want to own such a thing. However, I am a poor judge of human nature. As an experimental physicist, I should make note of the fact that there are more and more of these special editions. Surely, someone must be buying them. Let us hope that Leica can sell enough of them to stay in business. They certainly cannot stay in business by selling to my kind. I prefer used Leicas, preferably well used, but not ugly. I apologize, in advance, for this tirade. I thought that it would be good to talk about something else except lenses. Chris At 09:12 PM 11/12/96 -0700, you wrote: >> From: Michael Reichmann <76703.2007@CompuServe.COM> >> It's called the Anton Bruckner edition and >> consists of an M6 covered with truely ugly blue coloured leatherette. >The lens >> is a 50mm collapsable f/2.8 Elmar and both body and lens are engraved. >It all >> comes in a wooden presentation box with a boxed set of Bruckner CDs!! >> >> The price -- hold your hats -- DM 14,300, or about US $10,000. > >I believe I just saw one of the Bruckner edition Leica M6 today in Mike's >Camera store in Boulder Colorado. The wooden box and ugly blue leather >sound familiar. Will have to go back to see if it is the same thing. > >Don Bledsoe > >