Guest darkstar2004 Posted June 1, 2009 Share #1 Posted June 1, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here it is: Leica Camera AG - Home What do you folks think? Good looking or fugly? Is it a case of "different for the sake of being different?" Personally, I like all black M cameras. I could live with a chrome M though. Albino M8? Pass. Hermes M? No thanks. I'll leave the Herpes M to Brad Pitt... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 1, 2009 Posted June 1, 2009 Hi Guest darkstar2004, Take a look here Albino M8. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
farnz Posted June 1, 2009 Share #2 Posted June 1, 2009 Albino M8: fugly Dipstick who's holding it: fugly. Oh, and he hasn't learnt to look through the viewfinder yet ... Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkstar2004 Posted June 1, 2009 Share #3 Posted June 1, 2009 Albino M8: fuglyDipstick who's holding it: fugly. Oh, and he hasn't learnt to look through the viewfinder yet ... Pete. LMAO!!! So it's not just me... Good call on the dipstick metro male. I sort of doubt that his right eye is an inch lower and an inch closer to his nose than his left eye (unless maybe his mom was a pregnant Chernobyl resident in late April of 1986). How can Leica not require something as basic as proper RF camera handholding technique in the image that is on the first page of their website? Just wondering out loud... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcoombs Posted June 1, 2009 Share #4 Posted June 1, 2009 Have to admit, that's an ad I would never show anyone I knew! Certainly no one who knew I owned a Leica. How pretentious can you get? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 1, 2009 Share #5 Posted June 1, 2009 I think it is beautiful. Much better then Chrome Ms, which I can't stand. Chrome + Black leather is definitely an acquired taste, IMO. It clashes terribly. Chrome + White is much better looking then Chrome + Black. Therefore I don't understand all the bitching about this new camera. If I was Leica's CEO I would go as far as commanding white leatherette or vulcanite to go with Chrome cameras. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted June 1, 2009 Share #6 Posted June 1, 2009 ... I think you have no taste. In which case you must be wrong. Everybody has taste. It may not agree with yours but such is life. Pete. Edit: Hmm ... it appears that the comment was pulled while I was typing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspherix Posted June 1, 2009 Share #7 Posted June 1, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) LMAO!!! So it's not just me... Good call on the dipstick metro male. I sort of doubt that his right eye is an inch lower and an inch closer to his nose than his left eye (unless maybe his mom was a pregnant Chernobyl resident in late April of 1986). How can Leica not require something as basic as proper RF camera handholding technique in the image that is on the first page of their website? Just wondering out loud... @ Darkstar 2004 Your remark about Chernobyl mothers is highly discriminating and not funny at all. You are making jokes on children and their parents who in fact experience a nightmare, living a terrible fate. If you don´t know what you´re joking about, then hopefully this might make you think: Chernobyl | Magnum In Motion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 1, 2009 Share #8 Posted June 1, 2009 In which case you must be wrong. Everybody has taste. It may not agree with yours but such is life. Pete. Edit: Hmm ... it appears that the comment was pulled while I was typing. I pulled the content, but I will say it here. Whoever dislikes the white M8 has no taste. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arminw Posted June 1, 2009 Share #9 Posted June 1, 2009 It is a cool ad and I like it ! Time to modernise and for some of you guys to shake off the dust . Armin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
underground Posted June 1, 2009 Share #10 Posted June 1, 2009 Is that justin timberlake? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted June 1, 2009 Share #11 Posted June 1, 2009 Is that for real or is someone being really naughty and hacking the Leica website? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted June 1, 2009 Share #12 Posted June 1, 2009 Though I definitely don't like the look the wardrobe and stylist selected for the model (I often wonder how young men can find women willing to date them, then realize that since so many look like some variation of this that young women have little choice) I think it's probably a good idea to try to convert people a few decades younger than most of us to help keep Leica afloat. And following all the hyperbole about the looks of the white Leica I find it far less of bothersome than I expected. And as NB23 points out, it seems to go well with chrome. Perhaps this is also a bridal camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted June 1, 2009 Share #13 Posted June 1, 2009 Makes Ken Rockwell's "The Leica Man" credible. Unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted June 2, 2009 Share #14 Posted June 2, 2009 The model's uglier than the camera, but if a white M8 with this advertising campaign appeals to a new demographic group, and makes more money for Leica, then I'll be happy and learn to live with it. It's just not my cup of tea. Frankly, the first time I saw images of the white M8, I thought it was a photoshopped prank. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likea Posted June 2, 2009 Share #15 Posted June 2, 2009 who gives a crap. It's about the photos, not what the apparatus looks like. Or, as Maria Muldaur sang, "It's ain't the meat, it's the motion." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suilvenman Posted June 2, 2009 Share #16 Posted June 2, 2009 LMAO!!! So it's not just me... Good call on the dipstick metro male. I sort of doubt that his right eye is an inch lower and an inch closer to his nose than his left eye (unless maybe his mom was a pregnant Chernobyl resident in late April of 1986). How can Leica not require something as basic as proper RF camera handholding technique in the image that is on the first page of their website? Just wondering out loud... Darkstar, have you had an opportunity to check out aspherix's reference to Chernobyl yet? Remember Three Mile Island? Thin line and all that. Cheers, Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhoersch Posted June 2, 2009 Share #17 Posted June 2, 2009 The M8.2's Stupid Mode (S) seems to have taken over Leica's Marketing Department for good... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 2, 2009 Share #18 Posted June 2, 2009 I pulled the content, but I will say it here. Whoever dislikes the white M8 has no taste. I wouldn't know - I haven't licked it yet... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted June 2, 2009 Share #19 Posted June 2, 2009 It's a cool idea and a cool price considering everything. And loads of PR around the globe about what's just 275 cameras. Pity they didn't make it the M8.2 in white. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkstar2004 Posted June 2, 2009 Share #20 Posted June 2, 2009 @ Darkstar 2004Your remark about Chernobyl mothers is highly discriminating and not funny at all. You are making jokes on children and their parents who in fact experience a nightmare, living a terrible fate. If you don´t know what you´re joking about, then hopefully this might make you think: Chernobyl | Magnum In Motion Aspherix, you're right - mostly. I made a joke at the expense of others without first thinking thru the ramifications of my words. My intent was to poke fun at the poser metro male holding the white M8 - and the pretension of the image as well as the mindset of those at Leica who looked at this image and said, "Yup, looks good to me - that's the image and the message we want to present to the world. Put it on the website." Maybe they were hoping for a sophisticated urban Euro flavor. They missed bigtime, IMHO. My intent was never to ridicule those who have been maimed and suffered as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. My intent was never to ridicule anyone who is handicapped or disabled. The truth is, I am both as a result of toxic chemical exposure in my former career as a jet mechanic for Bombardier Aerospace and U.S. Air. Here Toxic chemicals in hangar made B.C. aviation workers sick is an article on others who have suffered a similar fate as a result of working in the areospace industry. By the way - if you or anyone else reading this knows anyone who is thinking of a career as an FAA licensed airframe and powerplant mechanic, have them read this post before they sink $18,000US in training and additional thousands in a starter tool set, as I did. The $12 to low $20s US hourly pay rate in this career field is laughable, considering the two years of your life invested in training as well as the cost of training, the thousands in tools you are required to provide at your own expense, the responsibility of the job, the safety risks and the health hazards you face every day in order to enrich the CEOs, board of directors and investors who control the airlines. Sacrificing your health and cutting years off your life expectancy in order to provide the airline customers - most of whom make more money than you do - with dirt cheap airfare rates is precious little comfort when you end disabled and up facing death as a result. $12US an hour is not much compensation when your hands are on the verge of frostbite and burning like they are in a deep fryer full of hot grease from changing a tire on a jet on the ramp in zero degree temperatures in the winter. $12US an hour is a joke when you're working on a broken lav system (crapper) in a jet and are elbows deep in blue stew (other people's shit). And then the greedy investors, multimillion dollar CEOs, money loving board members and self centered, infantile airline customers bitch about the pay rate of airline mechanics. My on the job exposure to methy ethyl ketone, toluene, acetone, phenolic resins, jet fuel, jet exhaust blast, benzene et. al. has torn thru my autoimmune system. I underwent intravennous chemotherapy (Cytoxan) in 2005 and am still on oral chemotherapy. My hands are pretty much destroyed as a result of systemic sclerosis brought on my the chemical exposure. I have endured ten surgical procedures on my hands over the years to save my fingers. They're still all there - but they're pretty much useless. Loading film in my MP, changing lenses and holding it without dropping it are all difficult and are always a challenge - but I'm grateful that I can still do these things. So aspherix, you are right - mostly. My joke was tasteless. It was misguided and thoughtless and I apologize to all whom I offended. I spoke without thinking it through fully. Mea culpa. As you can see, I have no grounds to feel physically superior to anyone. My attempt at humor was a bit of rough around the edges, as is most of the humor made by former military men and former jet mechanics. It was not funny, as you pointed out. But it was not "highly discriminating" as you tried to claim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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