adli Posted August 10, 2009 Share #41 Posted August 10, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Perhaps Leica should market small M8-2 black 'touch up' paint sticks (as supplied for scratches on cars) - clearly a potential marketing opportunity that they may have in mind . The Leica way would be to offer you to send your M8 to Solm to have them paint it and charge you €300 for the job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 Hi adli, Take a look here Black M8.2 paint - marks. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
leicashot Posted August 13, 2009 Share #42 Posted August 13, 2009 Tha black is 'designed' to wear, simple as that. Most consumers are aware of this prior to purchasing....am I wrong? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iansky Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share #43 Posted August 13, 2009 Tha black is 'designed' to wear, simple as that. Most consumers are aware of this prior to purchasing....am I wrong? I will never understand why a camera manufacturer would design a camera paint job "specifically to wear", surely in this day and age of digital camera shelf life even Leica owners may well want to sell their M8's for an upgraded/future model, many of the people who would be interested in buying these used bodies could well be put off by the designer patina that Leica appears to lean toward. In the days of analogue only cameras, I owned and used professionally quite a few "M" series and their resale value was always higher with less sign of wear than with a well worn patinated look - I am sure this has not changed. I am a user not a collector and my M8.2 has early signs of wear even with careful treatment (do not read light use into this) so this paint job on any other manufacturers camera would be classed as a manufacturers fault so why should Leica do it deliberately? I do wonder exactly what percentage of M8 users are happy with this as opposed to those of us who have no choice as it appears part of the ownership package. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_newell Posted August 13, 2009 Share #44 Posted August 13, 2009 I will never understand why a camera manufacturer would design a camera paint job "specifically to wear", surely in this day and age of digital camera shelf life even Leica owners may well want to sell their M8's for an upgraded/future model, many of the people who would be interested in buying these used bodies could well be put off by the designer patina that Leica appears to lean toward. In the days of analogue only cameras, I owned and used professionally quite a few "M" series and their resale value was always higher with less sign of wear than with a well worn patinated look - I am sure this has not changed. I am a user not a collector and my M8.2 has early signs of wear even with careful treatment (do not read light use into this) so this paint job on any other manufacturers camera would be classed as a manufacturers fault so why should Leica do it deliberately? I do wonder exactly what percentage of M8 users are happy with this as opposed to those of us who have no choice as it appears part of the ownership package. Good and fair questions all. You are a good sport to stay calm and rational after the thrashing all here (including me) gave you!!! I always thought the black paint thing was odd unless you were talking about things like the LHSA commemoratives. I had a beautiful black paint 50mm pre-ASPH Summilux that I got cheap but I resold it because I knew it would start wearing immediately and I could not bring myself to do that. I sold it to someone who either (1) would be happy with a brassed lens or (2) would put it on a shelf. Didn't care which, just wanted a lens that was "normal" to me and got the black anodized eqivalent. Still happily using it and it still looks great... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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