Comments on: Leica M7 Hermes unboxed

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:25 +0000

Developing limited edition products like this can not take much effort at all and are very high profit items. The pictures I have seen of this one do not make it look very attractive…hence there may be comparatively few sales and the collectors will go wild because of its rarity.

Let’s face it, Leica is never going to sell many cameras. The technology is not exactly up to date and the pricing helps to ensure that they will never threaten any other camera maker. One has to wonder how out of date their design and production technologies are as well.

By: SST

SST — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:50:59 +0000

The character in the bid is not a cursive style but a block style.

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:59:32 +0000

@BradL:

Leica will make these extremely profitable items so long as people are willing to pay for them. Yes they should also scale production to meet the demand, but I think they should do both, not choose one or the other. Meanwhile I am trying to hold my girlfriend at bay from buying the white edition of the M8 (honey, I can almost buy a M9 with that money!)

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:38:52 +0000

Brad, you are right. It is the first 35 Lux in the silver anodized aluminum though.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:52:19 +0000

Not true! They silver anodized the 28 elmarit for the M8.2 Safari edition and the M8 White edition. It weighs the same as the black version elmarit.

By: BradL

BradL — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:30:57 +0000

Rather than produce yet another item of photographic jewelery I’d much rather they expend resources on getting real photographic gear like M9 and S2 out the door and into customer’s hands.