Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> Do you think they have already had it designed? Isn't that the MP? All >> it needs is special script and a special price. >> >> Jesse >> >> Brian Reid wrote: >> >>>> Any bets Leica comes out with an HCB "Memorial Camera" limited to a >>>> production of 95? >>>> A rebadged Leica O? >> >> >With a 50mm lens soldered to it. >But which one? >The new new could not be very HCBlike with ASPH elements and the whole bit. >The Summicron sounds like the closest. >Or they can get permission to use a Zeiss formula. >Ha ha ha ha ha ha. >He didn't just always use the Zeiss 50 he must have half the other times use >a Leitz. Fifty fifty chance. >I don't think collapsibles were very HCBlike. >I'd come out with a fast f2 Summicron with the old outer casesing like they >did with that other lens. Which was a 50 was it not? Maybe that lens. >But weld it right on the body. >To encourage a much more HCB like look. >These people who try to rip off HCB with a 35 are out of their minds. HCB used mainly 50 mm, never 135, rarely 35 and sometimes 90 for landascape. In French papers HCB (in his late years) was presented with M and 50/2.8 or a CL. In '98, Leica made a special M6, platinum finish, with a Elmar 50/2.8. The signature of HCB was on the top plate and the SN was the HCB's DOB (22-8-1908). This camera was sold by Christie's (London) on June 11, 1998 to the benefit of a charitable association (Les petits freres des pauvres). The camera was set in a special (old fashion) box designed by Louis Vuitton. I didn't participate to the bid neither know the price of this special camera. Bernard bernard.degaute@skynet.be