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[rnl]

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just saw this. https://leicarumors.com/2019/01/16/coming-soon-leica-m10-p-safari-limited-edition-camera-leaked-pictures.aspx/

 

 

[TomB_tx]

The lens proportions look like a standard Summicron.

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[jaapv]

Very traditional. Leica has "Safari" editions  - all of the useless for safari use - since the R3.

[derleicaman]

Pretty normal for a Safari Edition. Looks like standard 50/2 in a different finish.

[albertknappmd]

They have a market of collectors..

Pays the bills!

Albert

[bags27]

This is a post at LR in response:

Franklin Berryman • an hour ago

Is this so no one will notice your camera when you are driving around in a Range Rover looking for elephants?

[rnl]

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Just now, bags27 said:

This is a post at LR in response:

Franklin Berryman • an hour ago

Is this so no one will notice your camera when you are driving around in a Range Rover looking for elephants?

...reminds me of why elephants paint their toes different colors....to hide in a jellybean jar, silly.

[adan]

Always fun to see Leica turn $5 worth of paint into $1500 worth of profits.

Thereby reducing the weight of wallets not connected to anything resembling a mind....

[daveco]

It doesn’t bother me at all.  If they have a market for these and can make some profit that helps Leica survive, then by all means, make these.

[mdemeyer]

Just back from a safari in Tanzania.  After careful thought (about 11 seconds) I decided to leave the M10 home and take the Fuji X-T2 and some long, stabilized, AF glass.  Right tool for the job.

Great trip.  Lovely photos.  🙂

[bags27]

1 hour ago, mdemeyer said:

Just back from a safari in Tanzania.  After careful thought (about 11 seconds) I decided to leave the M10 home and take the Fuji X-T2 and some long, stabilized, AF glass.  Right tool for the job.

Great trip.  Lovely photos.  🙂

Bet you wouldn't have done that if the M10 had Safari colors.... 😀

Hope it was a great trip.

[4pipes]

2 hours ago, mdemeyer said:

Just back from a safari in Tanzania.  After careful thought (about 11 seconds) I decided to leave the M10 home and take the Fuji X-T2 and some long, stabilized, AF glass.  Right tool for the job.

Great trip.  Lovely photos.  🙂

Yep, I have the XT-2 also, only kept long, fast glass to complement M10.

[jaapv]

Actually I got loads of good Safari photographs on M cameras. Using the various Telyt-V versions on Visoflex III with non-EVF enabled ones and on the 240 with EVF and Vario-Elmar 105-280 and APO-extenders. Unfortunately none had safari paint :(.

[jdlaing]

50 minutes ago, jaapv said:

Actually I got loads of good Safari photographs on M cameras. Using the various Telyt-V versions on Visoflex III with non-EVF enabled ones and on the 240 with EVF and Vario-Elmar 105-280 and APO-extenders. Unfortunately none had safari paint :(.

But they would have been so much better if they had the Safari paint.

[lct]

Usual practice since the M1 if memory serves. M4 olive here:

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[howiebrou]

I like the Safari editions simply because I think they look nicer. Goes well with my olive green Nikonos V😄 If they produced an olive green version for each camera i would be the first in line.

[adan]

I will say that if a gun were put to my head to buy "some" Leica-M special edition, the Safari is the one I could most live with. Better than red-and-gold dragons and such...