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  1. About 100 yers ago, Leitz company issued a set of theatre binoculars in gold (BINAR and BITUR, according to Laney). It was a thing of class and the luxury edition adorned their catalogue until the WWII. The logical choice was to try and implement the gold mystique to the Leitz cameras as well - and thus in 1929 the "Luxus" Leica (LELUX, LESSALUX) was born. Although never a huge commercial success, the cameras (less than 100 made according to Rogliatti et al.) remains a collector favorite. Fast forward to the M era. There were several attempts to revive the glitter with custom golden M3's, but the biggest golden boom was created after the M "revival" with the special edition M4-2 in 1979, commemorating the 100 years anniversary of Oskar Barnack (1879-1979). There were 500+500 cameras made in 1979 and 1980 in Canada for the occasion (1527201-1527700 and 1528151-1528650 respectively) with 24-karat gold plating. After that, there were several more editions in gold - for the Sultan of Brunei (I know of two variants, first was the 25th Anniversary of accession to the throne of Sultan of Brunei on 1st October 1992), for the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the access to the throne of HM The King Bhumiphol Adulyadej of Thailand (1996) and the Leica MP Gold "60 years PRC" (2009). Several very nice golden M2, M3 and M4s surface on eBay now and then, but they are all custom repaints. No golden M was made in digital era, only brass - M10P for Thailand S.C. ASSET comes to mind. Please feel free to add any additional information! And do write how you feel about golden Leicas. You know what they say - anything useful to you is pure gold, regardless of the material used... (Pictured here: my personal M4-2 with Leica catalogue production number 10420 from 1980 with the Summilux dating from 1977.)
  2. Landscape of my region in autumn 2018. This belongs to my first series with my "new" Leica R3 and Summicron 50 mm. Kodak 200 scanned with Epson 850 V Pro.
  3. last weekend had a few hours of low sunlight at noon which illuminated the foliage of the beechtrees. Still there was a glowing yellow and brown. Canon 5D MKII with Summicron 50 mm
  4. Aus Neugier habe ich ein originales Echtheits-Zertifikat einer R4 Gold gekauft. Ich frage mich, warum jemand ein solches Dokument 'übrig hat' - der Verkäufer konnte mir nichts dazu sagen, weil er für Provision verkaufte. Die Chance, dass eine Kamera mit einem so hohen Wert (hmm, ist, dass 'Wert' oder 'Preis'?) so beschädigt wird, daß das Zertifikat obsolet ist, scheint mir eher klein, wer würde eine solche Kamera mit auf die Straße nehmen zum Fotografieren? Und wie groß ist der Markt für eine gestohlene R4 Gold ohne das Zertifikat? Wie auch immer, wenn jemand ein Zertifikat verloren hat, kann er/sie Kontakt aufnehmen.. Johan
  5. Out of curiosity, I bought an original Authenticity Certificate of an R4 Gold. I wonder why someone would part from such a document - the seller couldn't tell me because he sold for commission. The chance that a camera with such a high value (hmm, is that value or price??) is damaged in such a way that the certificate has become useless seems rather small to me; who would actually take it out on the street for taking pictures? And how big is the market for a stolen R4 Gold without the certificate? Anyway, if someone is missing his/her certificate, he/she can contact me. Johan
  6. pgk

    GOLD!

    Having 'finalised' my macro set-up (based on an old lathe, two R bellows, multiple extension tubes and a couple of microscope stages), I have finally used it in anger. A friend is writing a book on the wreck of the Royal Charter (which sank 150 years ago this year) and asked my to photograph some gold 'nuggets' which were recovered about 25 years ago. Although too big to be really called dust, these 'nuggets are only about 3~4mm long and I shot them using a 50mm f/2.8 Leitz Photar mounted on an R series bellows and shooting with an M8 on a Visoflex 3 - a system which is producing surprisingly good results so far. Here's one of them.
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