PurseBlog.com has an article about the Leica M7 Hermes edition and gallery of what’s in the box. This is the part I found interesting about the included silver chrome 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M lens:
“The unique part about this limited lens is that Leica created a new production process to silver anodize the lens’ aluminum alloy barrel and [...]
The latest limited edition Leica M7 Hermes (more M7 Hermes stories) is now shipping
The Hermes limited edition M7 coupled with the 35mm 1.4 aspherical silver lens currently sells for $12,950.00 @ Adorama.
Leica M7 Hermes limited edition UK price: GBP 8,550.00 (9.500,00 €), available in December 2009. US price not yet released. Full UK press release after the break:
Image: flickr/stranger_than_Tokyo
As posted earlier, the Leica M7 Hermes Limited Edition will be released on Monday:
The latest rumors from Europe say that the Leica M7 Hermes limited edition will be released/officially announced on Monday, November 16th, 2009. The Europeans sources are always right
The expected new M camera design could be the Hermes Leica M7 which was already displayed in Tokyo 2 weeks ago (see report here). Those two pictures were taken from shphotoshop.de (thanks for the tip Gyorgy):
Each of the models will be limited to 100 pieces, price: 9.500,00 €.
This model is not to be mistaken with the Leica MP [...]
Update: a second M9 limited edition picture was added. I was told that both cameras are only on display for now.
To my knowledge this is the second Leica M9 limited edition, currently available in the new Leica store in Futakotamagawa, Tokyo (the first one was produced for Amateur Photographer magazine). The word is that only [...]