[Leica] Leica is now selling pre-brassed cameras so every couch potato can look like a badass journalist

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

hear hear

ric


> On Feb 24, 2015, at 4:16 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> An M-P certainly is not a "very silly" camera.
> 
> The "pre-brassing" isn't silly UNLESS no one buys the things.
> If they all sell? to whom ever? for what ever reason and/or price?
> well than it all becomes quite "un-silly."
> 
> I'd choose to spend money in a different manner?
> though I can't afford to collect stuff?
> except when fellow artists and crafts folk agree to barter?
> 
> My metal working, wood working, and ceramicist friends and clients do work 
> very hard on their hand rubbed, sometimes "distressed" surfaces, patinas, 
> glazes and finishes. And they charge according to those hard won "looks."
> 
> To each their own.
> 
> I'd like a cheaper M? just unfinished brass? no paint? no rubbing off the 
> paint? just give me the cheaper price for not having to "finish" the damn 
> thing at all. My work with the tool will supply the "finish."
> 
> ;~)
> 
> a note off the iPad, George