Anyone getting the new titanium M-A?

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Carved outta solid hunk of Ti. $20K with lens. Sold out in minutes...

Leica M-A 'Titan' Set with APO-Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH

Leica is excited to introduce a classic analogue camera set with elegant and robust titanium parts. The Leica M-A 'Titan' set marks the sixth time Leica has released a limited-edition with a titanium exterior - thereby continuing a tradition that first started with the Leica M6 TTL 'Titanium' in...
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I think I'm going to let this one go by unless my numbers come in at Loto. Would be nice though.
 

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I don't get it. They've been failing to fix supply chain / manufacturing issues for over a year now, yet found resources to build a special edition analog M? I've given up on the idea of owning a brand new Leica because it's been impossible to get one without standing in line, and I'm allergic to Soviet-style acquisition of goods, especially of luxury items.
 

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I already have a Titanium M-mount camera. It is called the Konica Hexar RF. Lol. Hell, even my Contax TVS is clad in titanium. I paid a solid hundy for that one.

Besides, Titanium should be the standard for Leica on all their cameras when they charge what they do.

Kind of agree with McDiesel too. I already own a Leica, and at some point I plan on buying another, but it won't be brand new.
 
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The Hexar has Ti top and bottom plates. My Xpan 2 does as well. My Rollei QZ35W is made from Ti. But what does that actually mean? Solid Ti? Plated over a base metal?
 

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i despise this practice as much as anyone.

But let's face it: the 250 people who bought it won't even cut the cellophane wrap. They'll wait 5 years and flip it for a 100% profit. Leica knows this. It's all part of the game that allows them to produce equipment of astonishing quality regardless of cost.
 

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Now look, there is a cheaper way. Copy and paste the 'red dot' from an online ad. Make a gummed sheet of red dot's. Cut them out and stick them on any camera you choose. Or, just go to the office store and buy some blank colored dots. Then practice your calligraphy on the red ones.
 

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Huss said:
Why? Leica has created a piece of industrial art that no-one is forced to buy. But it helps the company.
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Hmmm . Thought I said that in my last sentence. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
 
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This one doesn't have any red dots. So should I apply nothing to any camera and it becomes a Leica?
 

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Interesting. I just don’t get collectors that would never use it- which would be the smart move. Kinda like classic cars maybe. There seems to be a satisfaction in some for having a rare bit of a manufactured item that sits in their garage or collector’s closet. I like that interesting cars get taken care of for the future, artifacts of the Industrial Age- but a Leica with a different finish in a special box? I don’t get it, but they obviously didn’t make it for me! I guess more power to them if they can sell out these oddball “special editions.”
 

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$20,000, and no red dot on the front? But people won't know that I have a Leica! Then they would shun me if they found out my other camera was a $20 Pentax MV.
 
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momus said:
$20,000, and no red dot on the front? But people won't know that I have a Leica! Then they would shun me if they found out my other camera was a $20 Pentax MV.
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I make up for it with my other Leicas.

 

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There is no explaining the mind of a collector. Think of the Farari fans who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying a car that cannot leave the factory test track. The final step for Leica will be a $100,000 camera than can only be used at factory to shoot test patterns. No photographs allowed!
 

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FWIW, a non-special-edition M-A with 50mm Apo-'cron costs about $15,000.
 

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It's the sort of camera only my dentist, or plumber could afford.
 

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TheFlyingCamera said:
You'd think that with the technology advances of the last seventy years, they could at least improve the flash sync to something faster than 1/60th. That's the real crime on any film Leica.
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You can buy Zeiss Ikon, Voigtländer Bessa or Konica Hexar RF if you are looking for a M-mount electronic shutter camera. Maybe the fact that all have since been discontinued speaks about what people want (or don't) in film rangefinder nowadays?
 

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Huss said:
This one doesn't have any red dots. So should I apply nothing to any camera and it becomes a Leica?
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What!! Twenty $K and no dot!? What a gyp. Don’t matter anyway, already got a camera with a red dot that says ‘Kodak’ on it. As far a prestige recognition the only time a person asked ‘Is that a Leica?’ The answer was, ‘No, it’s a half frame Olympus Pen F‘. When I was actually carrying an M4-2 (now sold off) no one ever commented about it at all.
 
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