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Leica Hermes edition camera

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Leica Camera Japan, a subsidiary of German camera manufacturer Leica Camera AG, will release a limited edition film camera made in collaboration with Hermes. The Leica M7 Hermes Edition has a high quality leather finish that complements the camera’s sophisticated look.

The price of this limited edition camera is approximately 1.4 million yen, and will be sold exclusively at Leica’s authorized Ginza and Futako-Tamagawa stores as well as Leica sections at several department stores. Only 200 cameras with serial numbers will be sold worldwide.

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If anyone wants a Leica for a lot less, the standard M7 goes used for about 240,000 yen now (though without lens.) Older Leicas are even cheaper.

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Excellent, I'll pick up this gadget with my winter bonus.

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It is extraordinary how tasteless and tacky many products are. What an awful colour for a camera. Who are they targeting? Constructions workers?

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Makes me think of my Leica IIIC back in 1950, all being metric & new to me in those days. It has been up many mountains to you name it & still in its original leather case all those years.

If I have a light meter, then it still works like a charm. Light meter has been damaged some yrs ago.

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I wish I had 1.4 million yen lying around so I can be one of the 200 people buying this Leica Hermes! Not.

I'd like a Leica though.

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Who are they targeting? Constructions workers? thats funny

they could have the thing pink with green spots and they will find easy 200 camera freaks to buy them.. In Japan you can find 200 camera freaks on a few tour buses.....

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Grab some flourescent orange spraypaint and some masking tape, then go wild on the (p)leather. Voila, an Hermes Leica!

That specific shade of orange is Hermes' signature color BTW.

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It really is an education to watch all these Brand names come up with things aimed specially for the Japanese. I wonder what their perception of the Japanese people really is. I find it insulting.

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the sort of people who buy this camera dont actually use the camera.. its just an ego trip for them - more money than brains (or taste)...

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It's beautiful, classy. Who will buy it? Millionaires who will carry this camera inside 3.5 million Hermes bags.

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A Leica is a very fine camera and quite expensive in its own right. What value does Hermes add to the cache of Leica? For me not much but I do like the orange.

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The colour is ghastly & I am not throwing names at that or my Leica for I have an old copy of another German camera, made in Japan right after WWII, to my Pentax Spotomatic I & Spotomatic II only I cannot obtain batteries for the latter two--basically the light meter, which is a pity, but in these modern days like batteries to modern changes are things that we cannot catch up to a few years later on. Same in the world of Japanese made motorcycles where some parts for a '00 Honda CBR929RR are not that easy to obtain---time goes on.

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I will take my leica 1A, IIIF & M3 over this thing any day!

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Smythe :

go have a look at Lemon Camera (in the Ginza area) ; it's Leica paradise and you may find there the meter that you need, in good condition or even overhauled. Sorry for not being more specific about the address, I know visually how to go there when I am in Tokyo but I have not kept anything written.

This Hermes edition is all the more funny, as the Leica company was taken over by Hermes group a few years ago ; shortly thereafter, the Hermes people started having second thoughts and they spun off Leica which was then taken over by an austrian investor.

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So... Leica is doing this again.... 2003 MP looked a lot better....

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Smythe > The Spotmatics took mercury batteries, which are now outlawed. You can use alternative batteries of the same size and voltage, or get an MR-9 adapter and use it with regular LR44 batteries (https://www.criscam.com/newsite/mercury_battery_adapters.php) The adapters are available at most camera stores and run about 3,000 yen.

the sort of people who buy this camera dont actually use the camera

This will go straight into someone's display cabinet.

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The758,

Spotmatic/Spotmatic II uses a H-D type battery. It is Spotmatic F that uses MR-9. There is an adapter for it, too, to power its meter with LR41.

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