[Leica] Leica in white

[grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)]

Think "Good Guys" in white hats
with white cowboy shirts festooned with pearl buttons
with frilly, white sheep-skin chaps
and white-buck cowboy boots...

Hand me the white camera, please...


> From: imagist3 at mac.com
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:39:33 -0500
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica in white
> 
> think military
> think arctic streets
> 
> <http://heroarmysurplus.com/images/33.jpg>
> 
> ;~)
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
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> 
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:21 AM, leica wrote:
> 
> > the essence of the "street" rangefinder camera is discretion.
> >
> > black is almost as prominent as white. so what colour would be most  
> > suitable; to "fade" into the hand?
> >
> > black, brown or white skin. what would fit?
> >
> > and not just for the body, but the lenses too ........
> >
> > light brown leather, flecked with black and the metalwork in a very  
> > matt bronze?
> >
> > ideas?
> >
> > bruce.
> >
> >
> > On 8-apr-2009, at 15:05, W. R. Smith wrote:
> >
> >> ..or toys for idiots. What an utterly hideous camera. How about a  
> >> pink one too for you know who/ what?
> >>
> >> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, leica <leica at ralgo.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: leica <leica at ralgo.nl>
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica in white
> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> >> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 7:53 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> toys for boys.
> >>
> >> bruce.
> >>
> >> On 8-apr-2009, at 14:19, F?elix L?opez de Maturana wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/04/
> >>>> allwhite_leica_m8_coming.html
> >>>>
> >>>> The most wrong headed move Leica has made in years.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> White
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The red dot could be black but there's no way of saving this  
> >>>> esthetic
> >>>> disaster.
> >>>>
> >>>> I say come out with a gun metal gray version it's s Leica
> >>>> tradition going
> >>>> back many decades;
> >>>> In times of war.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark William Rabiner
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> May be some POP star buys it.
> >>>
> >>> Felix
> >>>
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