I have both! :-) The Rolex Submariner and the analogue Leica MP! :-) an iPhone is expensive and after 2 to 3 years it's rubbish a Rolex and a Leica mp is for life if we take care! so, in the end, it's not really expensive... :-)
I used canon system for 10 years then switched to Fuji GFX mid format system for 5 years. Wanted a small travel camera but high quality. Couldn't justify the value for Fuji Xpro 3. Went to the store and got Leica M10-R instead. And must say im BLOWN AWAY. i always thought of Leica as an overpriced brand with results just like many good cameras produce which also can be achieved in post production. Boy was I wrong! The images are absolutely stunning. BUT you have to know what a good image is to appreciate it to be honest. Many think more megapixels = better image. That's how we are being sold to. You need to look at colors, tone transitions, micro-contrast, dimensional aspect etc. This is as close as you can get to film. No more pixelated harsh looking "dead" images for me. THANK YOU LEICA ;)
I own both the x pro 3 and Leica m6. So far, I’ve seen myself use and pick up my m6 so much more than the Leica. The workflow, history, and the process that goes into photo making is noticeable. It makes me want to pick it up and go outside rather than nitpicking some of the tech i wish a camera could have.
Have you noticed how much more you have to pay for real quality? Other things I've bought in the past - things that I just liked watches, fountain pens, etc....- have gone way up. I have a rolex watch that I can get 10x used what I paid for it new. Things are getting "crapified" - companies are trying to extract every last penny from you, while trying to drive costs down as far as they can. They're pretending that you are getting the same thing that you did in the past. Case in point: a 'little red wagon' I bought for one of my kids. Same thing my parents bought 35 years ago? Then: rubber wheels, steel construction. Now: blow molded polyethylene wheels, plastic construction. I got rid of a 1985 mercedes I owned last year - 360,000 miles on original engine and tranny. The mercedes's of the 2010's are not even close in durability. Manufacturers hope you won't notice this. They want to coast on their reputation. Thing is folks, if you want real, honest-to-God quality, you're going to have to pay through the wazoo for it.
Well this is true , I know that some Leicas had a sapphire screen display , and the new M10 models include a gorilla glass screen , for the price ($8,000) I think it’s fair to use the sapphire , some say that they didn’t included that material because the touch screen, that’s totally a lie.
@@Sams911 Partial quotes do not quite reflect reality: The mechanical parts of Leicas are mostly made in Portugal, true, AND the lens and camera assembly (and control) are in Germany, so are lens design and production (which is still quite a proportion of the time / labor, especially lenses, so no, most of the time /labor is not in Portugal, just the mechanical parts of the cameras [by the way, the sensors must be the most costly part of the digital Ms and they are not made in either Wetzlar nor Portugal]. FYI, an addendum : soon Portugal is to produced 3 lenses specifically for the US market in order to circumvent tariffs increased by the Trump administration on EU products.
@@BrunoChalifour Bruno.. I own a M10P and a Noctilux 50 .95 ... I want this stuff to be as much as possible made in Germany... but I know that if US Law were to be applied, this camera would not qualify as made in Germany.. more over, where is the sensor made? China? Leica won't even tell us the country of origin of this critical item.. I feel they are using the "Made in Germany" to get top dollar while farming far too much manual labor to a low cost labor market..
@@Sams911 I also own Leica film and digital bodies. If it had not been for moving the plant to Canada, the M series would have disappeared. So moving out of Germany (and both cameras and lenses assembled there (including Noct f 1) wore "Made in Canada" without our seeing the prices decrease at the time. The current sensors are possibly made in Europe as was the one for the M240 (although they will not disclose it) or China or Japan (Sony? Sony makes the sensors for Hasselblad...). The "Made in Germany" is part of their identity and one of Kaufmann's wishes (without whom Leica may not have survived the digital transition). It differentiated cameras and lenses once the production of the M6 went back to Wetzlar. It also provides work to some 200 people in Wetzlar and 700 in Portugal... what other camera/lens manufacturer (except Hasselblad who also only assembles its cameras in Sweden) provides work (and the social/health benefits that come with it in Germany and Portugal) under such conditions? How many cameras are assembled by hand with that minutia and quality control? Everything has a price I guess. Both the excellence ofLeica and Hasselblad has survived thanks to these choices, could we blame them?
bought a brand new leica m6 ttl o.72 years ago and shot 14 photos with it and sold it.good job i did not lose a lot.i could not get on with the rangefinder camera.love slr cameras they are much better and faster than leicas.love nikon f.f2.nikkormat ft3.f3.canon f1.minolta xd7.olympus om4.om1.pentax mx.km.kx.k1000.spotmatics.they are all quality cameras
The fact you could not use a rangefinder is your responsibility, not Leica's. It is a known fact that the rangefinder (just because of its base) allows far more accurate focusing than a (film) SLR, and the clarity of the viewfinder does not depend on the maximum aperture of the lens used. The shutter is far more silent and produces far less vibrations than those of a Nikkormat or F2 which allows the user to photograph at slower speeds (important then with limited ISO). A camera is as fast as the one who uses it. Focusing and triggering the shutter on a Leica is far smoother and faster than on a Nikkormat or an F2 (and I have used all three cameras). It is true that there are areas I would not use a Leica M (microphotography, situations requiring zooms or long telephoto lenses), but Ms are not design for such uses.
Ill be the first one to agree these cameras are overpriced about $1000- $1500 bucks, and that turns off a lot of people. Leica honestly would profit more in my opinion by lowering their entry level price point, and opening up the market to "new users". What your paying for is the glass, tho i personally love the bodies as well, (especially in an autofocus, advanced metering age, its refreshing) and in my opinion id like to see that to about $1000 bucks cheaper (kinda like the summarit line of glass) . On this note Leica's all I shoot, my Documentary, Street, Events, and even Videography is all shot and used on my digital/ film Leica M's.
I recently checked the 35mm Leica MP to see its current value, since I wanted to purchase one 10 years ago. The camera model is now 15 years old (circa 2003). In 10 years, the 35mm MP has increased in price by $500 USD!
And who is going to pay for competent and expert labor? Robots? ...while human labor will sit on the curb and watch with their hands asking for alms! (yours, surely). In any fields, good and reliable tools have a price, the cost of their quality and manufacturing.
The needs of the photographer..... What kind of NEEDS ? WHICH photographer ? Where is the entrance to Leitz. Who is the door keeper of Leitz. Who at Leitz works will listen to me. If necessary, kann ich auch deutsch sprechen Since 1965 we are working with Leitz cameras, optics, enlargers and slideprojectors. I have haver never met anybody of the Leitz works. Waiting for over fifty years.
Yeahhhhh so much care into the bodies..... whoops, 5 years later and new technology is out that blows these dumb little piece of jewelry cameras away, LMAO This is why Germany doesn’t have a space program and just makes mechanical things instead of microchip things. Those camera bodies are very nice pieces of jewelry and 10 years from now they’ll look nice in a display case when everyone has 100 megapixels and 0.0 zoom lenses in their smart phones. Don’t think so? Check out the iPhone 11 Pro’s camera.
I have had my M6 (that I bought used) since 1989... 31 years and have never considered it as jewelry but as a well-designed precision tool offering superb optics and results. I do not think I am going to replace my M10 soon either.
Why because its part EVF? You can purchase brand, or off brand EVFs for your Leica M. People lost their shit about having video in their Leica, which didn't bother me much but the purists weren't having it. Most Leica shooters wouldn't want it on, or anywhere near their Leica M.
before you defend Leica, know that they wanted a hybrid viewfinder too - but the technology wasn't there. Instead of having a mediocre OVF and a mediocre EVF, they went for a really good OVF. Fuji can do it because they don't need an actual rangefinder in their cameras.
Visibly you have no idea what you are talking about! Get informed. Leica rangefinders (not "viewfinder mechanism) and the electronic system used by Fuji have very little in common even if one is derived from the other and if Fuji based its whole X series on the Leica model. Leica came first... Fuji copied and added its own savoir-faire... in the end two very different products. Again, apples and oranges. Learn your fruit!
Hey look ... I just paid a German woman $6000 to use a pair of tweezers to put my Leica logo on my Japanese camera. Most people don't realize all these parts are primarily made in Germany. They are only put together in Germany. Bummer, really. This is a far departure from the real tradition of the camera company from the 50s. It's basically a shell of it's former self, like all premium brands today.
If production evolution would not have been implemented there would be no Leica product on the market today. Time changes and things evolve. Horse and carriage where a common sight on the streets in the 50ies, now there are cars.
pinkeye00 Portugal not Japan. Most of the parts are made there and then finished and assembled in Germany. The sensor for the m8-m type 240 was made my Kodak too. It's mostly a premium luxury brand now, but it's not on hassleblad rebadge Sony aspc level
One can only imagine that a choice in a Kodak sensor only leads you down a path of bankruptcy and sold patents. I'll probably be asked to pay a $3 tax for every photo I post to Instagram that has a Leica tag, because of an obscure patent holder that bought out Kodak's intellectual property many years ago, or get sued for $10,000. :) Just saying ...
That's utterly preposterous. Not even close to how copyright or intellectual properties work. Also have you looked at the cost of recently released FF DSLRs and the top range ML cameras? 3-5k sans glass for them. If you look a single lens recent Medium format kit you'll spend 8k on the low end with used pentax stuff... Go shoot a older leica and it's clear to understand how people can spend so much money on a digital rangefinder.
What's real? Isn't the present the only real thing we know. In that respect digital cameras are real and film ones, things of the past, memories and nostalgia.
@@jimjam6598 I understand your argument and would agree that Leica cameras and lenses are far from being cheap, no-one would disagree with that, it is a fact, on the other hand they are such high quality that they are life investments (for photographers). I still have, and sometimes use the M2 I bought used in 1986. Now regarding overrated, you cannot dismiss tens of thousands of users of these cameras that would disagree with you. The difference may lie in not looking at the same criteria. Most of those who have used a Leica on a regular basis realize the simplicity, precision, and quality they are dealing with. "Extensions of our eyes" (Cartier-Bresson) and brains, they do not pretend to replace them (including sometimes our hearts [HCB again]), which specs sheets based on decisions cameras will make for us tend to do. Leicas, especially Ms which is my point here, are cameras for photographers who love their craft, for whom it is a way of life not just a job or a hobby. If one's life is at stake, one wants the best companion for it: one that is discreet, efficient, does not take over one's decision-making but facilitates it. Finally there is there, and I think we would agree on that as we are now entering a subjective realm, a relationship also based on history, tradition, high craftsmanship, clean, simple esthetic, and just pleasure. Using my Leica M provides a sensual, esthetic, and meaningful pleasure that no other camera achieves (Hasselblad used to come close with its 500 series (V))... without any compromise regarding image quality. [And I have used Nikons, Fujis, Canons, Panasonics, Sonys... efficient tools, granted, but no match in terms of pleasure of use]. I understand that this may be irrelevant for some for many reasons, one being financial (although I bought my M2 with no money in the bank at the time but I would rather walk or take the bus than use my car... and buy a used if not battered Leica that still delivered all of the above... and I have never regretted it). For many of us it is irreplaceable, and many can live without.
I don't want a Rolex when I grow up, I want a Leica
Jor Cap up to you, it's your life
get both!
If you can afford Leica, Rolex is not that hard. :D
I have both! :-) The Rolex Submariner and the analogue Leica MP! :-)
an iPhone is expensive and after 2 to 3 years it's rubbish a Rolex and a Leica mp is for life if we take care! so, in the end, it's not really expensive... :-)
I would have a Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36 with a Purple Dial or a JLC Reverso with a brown lizard strap and a Leica Q2 or a Sony A9.
The M camera is a work of art in itself.
Beautiful video! You need to have an M to totally understand the passion behind each unit made.
Too right if critics actually hold one they would 'get it'
I used canon system for 10 years then switched to Fuji GFX mid format system for 5 years. Wanted a small travel camera but high quality. Couldn't justify the value for Fuji Xpro 3. Went to the store and got Leica M10-R instead. And must say im BLOWN AWAY. i always thought of Leica as an overpriced brand with results just like many good cameras produce which also can be achieved in post production. Boy was I wrong! The images are absolutely stunning. BUT you have to know what a good image is to appreciate it to be honest. Many think more megapixels = better image. That's how we are being sold to. You need to look at colors, tone transitions, micro-contrast, dimensional aspect etc. This is as close as you can get to film. No more pixelated harsh looking "dead" images for me. THANK YOU LEICA ;)
I own both the x pro 3 and Leica m6. So far, I’ve seen myself use and pick up my m6 so much more than the Leica. The workflow, history, and the process that goes into photo making is noticeable. It makes me want to pick it up and go outside rather than nitpicking some of the tech i wish a camera could have.
Lol. Way to kiss Leicas ass. I believe you’re not much of a photographer
3:57 dust on the rear display, tut tut!
2:40 how much for a tray of that?
Jokes on them now I know how to make a beautiful piece of German engineering in my shed see you all in 3 years
Any update?
I want updates now
He got sidetracked archiving all his porno mags.
hahaha when do you go to ship?
@@chloescanlon1107 There where i used to keep mine!
What an amazing factory...it’s like being onboard the Starship Enterprise...
I have Leica IIIa from 1937 ^^ and it is my best camera i ever have :3
The m10 was the perfect camera!
I’m finally going to get one this year.
well done!
this is my dream camera
best of the best.. nothing can beat a Leica
I love my M10 :)
this is just beautiful.
This video is as beautifull as the products they make.
I hope my Q2 is made like this.
Hi Leica! Very nice video, but you need some plants in your factory. It will help to clean the air too. Peace Lily is a good example.
Forget the stupid plants. Lower your prices.
@@aquilifergroup Have you tried making more money? Your alpha self help playlist not teaching you that?
Spot the white 'mouse' at 1:21 along with squeak ;-)
Just a worker's right arm.
my dream camera
Have you noticed how much more you have to pay for real quality? Other things I've bought in the past - things that I just liked watches, fountain pens, etc....- have gone way up. I have a rolex watch that I can get 10x used what I paid for it new. Things are getting "crapified" - companies are trying to extract every last penny from you, while trying to drive costs down as far as they can. They're pretending that you are getting the same thing that you did in the past. Case in point: a 'little red wagon' I bought for one of my kids. Same thing my parents bought 35 years ago? Then: rubber wheels, steel construction. Now: blow molded polyethylene wheels, plastic construction. I got rid of a 1985 mercedes I owned last year - 360,000 miles on original engine and tranny. The mercedes's of the 2010's are not even close in durability. Manufacturers hope you won't notice this. They want to coast on their reputation.
Thing is folks, if you want real, honest-to-God quality, you're going to have to pay through the wazoo for it.
Well this is true , I know that some Leicas had a sapphire screen display , and the new M10 models include a gorilla glass screen , for the price ($8,000) I think it’s fair to use the sapphire , some say that they didn’t included that material because the touch screen, that’s totally a lie.
mariogpx damn it! I got ripped off! My m10 has no screen!
FANTASTIC
Yet the leica m9 had so many issues! I hope that the m10 series proves to be a better investment and not have its sensors ruined in the future...
Your hopes have been answered!
Amazing !!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ohhh man....im so in love😍
Those who are asking for a built-in EVF, couldn't quite comprehend what "M" stands for.
Beautiful and fun camera to use. Love love love my M6 but there is simply not enough value for me to blow 6K on a digital Leica.
you can pick up a M9 for about 2200$ now :)
Everyone choses how to spend their money, but once you try one you're going to want one.
Recently I got to hold an A10 with noctilux, lets just say, i came
is it not true that most of the time / labor spent making the camera is actually in Portugal;?
Nope... check your sources.
@@BrunoChalifour how's this for a source? The General Manager of Leica production said so... ua-cam.com/video/SGu_yeQT-Y0/v-deo.html
@@Sams911 Partial quotes do not quite reflect reality: The mechanical parts of Leicas are mostly made in Portugal, true, AND the lens and camera assembly (and control) are in Germany, so are lens design and production (which is still quite a proportion of the time / labor, especially lenses, so no, most of the time /labor is not in Portugal, just the mechanical parts of the cameras [by the way, the sensors must be the most costly part of the digital Ms and they are not made in either Wetzlar nor Portugal]. FYI, an addendum : soon Portugal is to produced 3 lenses specifically for the US market in order to circumvent tariffs increased by the Trump administration on EU products.
@@BrunoChalifour Bruno.. I own a M10P and a Noctilux 50 .95 ... I want this stuff to be as much as possible made in Germany... but I know that if US Law were to be applied, this camera would not qualify as made in Germany.. more over, where is the sensor made? China? Leica won't even tell us the country of origin of this critical item.. I feel they are using the "Made in Germany" to get top dollar while farming far too much manual labor to a low cost labor market..
@@Sams911 I also own Leica film and digital bodies. If it had not been for moving the plant to Canada, the M series would have disappeared. So moving out of Germany (and both cameras and lenses assembled there (including Noct f 1) wore "Made in Canada" without our seeing the prices decrease at the time. The current sensors are possibly made in Europe as was the one for the M240 (although they will not disclose it) or China or Japan (Sony? Sony makes the sensors for Hasselblad...). The "Made in Germany" is part of their identity and one of Kaufmann's wishes (without whom Leica may not have survived the digital transition). It differentiated cameras and lenses once the production of the M6 went back to Wetzlar. It also provides work to some 200 people in Wetzlar and 700 in Portugal... what other camera/lens manufacturer (except Hasselblad who also only assembles its cameras in Sweden) provides work (and the social/health benefits that come with it in Germany and Portugal) under such conditions? How many cameras are assembled by hand with that minutia and quality control? Everything has a price I guess. Both the excellence ofLeica and Hasselblad has survived thanks to these choices, could we blame them?
All these “how it’s made” videos wether it’s a car, camera or whatever, are really just showing how stuffs assembled rather than actually ‘made’ ?
Andrew D Turton voigtlander at cosina has some vids of the process from raw materials to assembly- one cool one is there 50 APO Lanthar Sony lens
Help-me
My Leica x2 .The sensor of the leica x2 is dirty, and there is no maintenance in Brazil.
I thought there's a rat at 1:21 haha
hahaha me too!!!!
Thought it was a white and gray cat, I checked the video 3 times before identifying it as an arm!
You can always count on idiotic comments on a video about Leica.
because they are using leica and are stealth.
2:39 if you got those logo,you don’t have to buy a Leica ,just stick them on ur camera done
I wish i have one
Leica is Love
More dust on your sensor in opening shot than in my vacuum cleaner!!
Only as good as the image maker.
Yes but no lmao
Gonna sell one of my kidneys for one of these babies! Can't wait :)
Syed Alwi SAME
Hahaha plz don’t
Sold one of my balls to get an Leica M10...best decision of my life!
hey, it doesn't have to be *your* kidney... if you know what I mean...
Why suffer selling an organ when you could just get a loan that would pass on to your grandchildren?
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That´s my Beach....
wow!
Wowoow
I'm Romanian pelicula photographer and I my desire is like Stefan Daniel to contact me :) He is a Romanian :)
bought a brand new leica m6 ttl o.72 years ago and shot 14 photos with it and sold it.good job i did not lose a lot.i could not get on with the rangefinder camera.love slr cameras they are much better and faster than leicas.love nikon f.f2.nikkormat ft3.f3.canon f1.minolta xd7.olympus om4.om1.pentax mx.km.kx.k1000.spotmatics.they are all quality cameras
M6 TTL 72 years ago? Wow, that's years before Leica made the M3... lol
@@MultiNemesis101 No an 0.72 viewfinder M6TTL...
The fact you could not use a rangefinder is your responsibility, not Leica's. It is a known fact that the rangefinder (just because of its base) allows far more accurate focusing than a (film) SLR, and the clarity of the viewfinder does not depend on the maximum aperture of the lens used. The shutter is far more silent and produces far less vibrations than those of a Nikkormat or F2 which allows the user to photograph at slower speeds (important then with limited ISO). A camera is as fast as the one who uses it. Focusing and triggering the shutter on a Leica is far smoother and faster than on a Nikkormat or an F2 (and I have used all three cameras). It is true that there are areas I would not use a Leica M (microphotography, situations requiring zooms or long telephoto lenses), but Ms are not design for such uses.
I just came here because its 420
Loveleh, simply loveleh!
Ill be the first one to agree these cameras are overpriced about $1000- $1500 bucks, and that turns off a lot of people. Leica honestly would profit more in my opinion by lowering their entry level price point, and opening up the market to "new users". What your paying for is the glass, tho i personally love the bodies as well, (especially in an autofocus, advanced metering age, its refreshing) and in my opinion id like to see that to about $1000 bucks cheaper (kinda like the summarit line of glass) . On this note Leica's all I shoot, my Documentary, Street, Events, and even Videography is all shot and used on my digital/ film Leica M's.
I recently checked the 35mm Leica MP to see its current value, since I wanted to purchase one 10 years ago. The camera model is now 15 years old (circa 2003). In 10 years, the 35mm MP has increased in price by $500 USD!
And who is going to pay for competent and expert labor? Robots? ...while human labor will sit on the curb and watch with their hands asking for alms! (yours, surely). In any fields, good and reliable tools have a price, the cost of their quality and manufacturing.
......you would probably like a cheap camera strap also.
Beautiful cameras I lust for one film of course so happy to see the m6 relaunched one day soon I be a proud owner thanks for what you do 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fujifilm X100F. 1300 euv.
What about Holgas? Or Trabants? ;o) Let us compare apples with apples not just price tags.
2:41 Logo adds $1500 to the camera.
Actually they add $500 for the models that don’t have the logo.
The needs of the photographer.....
What kind of NEEDS ?
WHICH photographer ?
Where is the entrance to Leitz.
Who is the door keeper of Leitz.
Who at Leitz works will listen to me.
If necessary, kann ich auch deutsch sprechen
Since 1965 we are working with Leitz cameras, optics, enlargers and slideprojectors.
I have haver never met anybody of the Leitz works.
Waiting for over fifty years.
라이카 딱지가 가끔 삐딱한게 저런이유였군
420?
I thought youtube didn't allow porn?!
;o)
No gloves. Interesting.
Yeahhhhh so much care into the bodies..... whoops, 5 years later and new technology is out that blows these dumb little piece of jewelry cameras away, LMAO This is why Germany doesn’t have a space program and just makes mechanical things instead of microchip things. Those camera bodies are very nice pieces of jewelry and 10 years from now they’ll look nice in a display case when everyone has 100 megapixels and 0.0 zoom lenses in their smart phones. Don’t think so? Check out the iPhone 11 Pro’s camera.
I have had my M6 (that I bought used) since 1989... 31 years and have never considered it as jewelry but as a well-designed precision tool offering superb optics and results. I do not think I am going to replace my M10 soon either.
Touch screen on m10p ☹️ whole philosphy has gone..
Just do not touch it!
The problem is....
Fujifilm made a better viewfinder mechanism than Leica.
Come on Leica, Fight Back !!
Why because its part EVF? You can purchase brand, or off brand EVFs for your Leica M. People lost their shit about having video in their Leica, which didn't bother me much but the purists weren't having it. Most Leica shooters wouldn't want it on, or anywhere near their Leica M.
before you defend Leica, know that they wanted a hybrid viewfinder too - but the technology wasn't there. Instead of having a mediocre OVF and a mediocre EVF, they went for a really good OVF. Fuji can do it because they don't need an actual rangefinder in their cameras.
Visibly you have no idea what you are talking about! Get informed. Leica rangefinders (not "viewfinder mechanism) and the electronic system used by Fuji have very little in common even if one is derived from the other and if Fuji based its whole X series on the Leica model. Leica came first... Fuji copied and added its own savoir-faire... in the end two very different products. Again, apples and oranges. Learn your fruit!
Hey look ... I just paid a German woman $6000 to use a pair of tweezers to put my Leica logo on my Japanese camera. Most people don't realize all these parts are primarily made in Germany. They are only put together in Germany. Bummer, really. This is a far departure from the real tradition of the camera company from the 50s. It's basically a shell of it's former self, like all premium brands today.
If production evolution would not have been implemented there would be no Leica product on the market today. Time changes and things evolve. Horse and carriage where a common sight on the streets in the 50ies, now there are cars.
Still Japanese. :)
pinkeye00 Portugal not Japan. Most of the parts are made there and then finished and assembled in Germany. The sensor for the m8-m type 240 was made my Kodak too. It's mostly a premium luxury brand now, but it's not on hassleblad rebadge Sony aspc level
One can only imagine that a choice in a Kodak sensor only leads you down a path of bankruptcy and sold patents. I'll probably be asked to pay a $3 tax for every photo I post to Instagram that has a Leica tag, because of an obscure patent holder that bought out Kodak's intellectual property many years ago, or get sued for $10,000. :) Just saying ...
That's utterly preposterous. Not even close to how copyright or intellectual properties work. Also have you looked at the cost of recently released FF DSLRs and the top range ML cameras? 3-5k sans glass for them. If you look a single lens recent Medium format kit you'll spend 8k on the low end with used pentax stuff...
Go shoot a older leica and it's clear to understand how people can spend so much money on a digital rangefinder.
This was only showing the stupid "digital image capture" version!
Not the REAL leica!
What's real? Isn't the present the only real thing we know. In that respect digital cameras are real and film ones, things of the past, memories and nostalgia.
Leica is incredibly overrated
Have you ever used one for any length of time? Informed opinion is valuable opinion, the rest...
@@BrunoChalifour I know they're great quality pieces of kit but they're so overpriced and overrated when u compare specs with similar cameras
@@jimjam6598 I understand your argument and would agree that Leica cameras and lenses are far from being cheap, no-one would disagree with that, it is a fact, on the other hand they are such high quality that they are life investments (for photographers). I still have, and sometimes use the M2 I bought used in 1986. Now regarding overrated, you cannot dismiss tens of thousands of users of these cameras that would disagree with you. The difference may lie in not looking at the same criteria. Most of those who have used a Leica on a regular basis realize the simplicity, precision, and quality they are dealing with. "Extensions of our eyes" (Cartier-Bresson) and brains, they do not pretend to replace them (including sometimes our hearts [HCB again]), which specs sheets based on decisions cameras will make for us tend to do. Leicas, especially Ms which is my point here, are cameras for photographers who love their craft, for whom it is a way of life not just a job or a hobby. If one's life is at stake, one wants the best companion for it: one that is discreet, efficient, does not take over one's decision-making but facilitates it. Finally there is there, and I think we would agree on that as we are now entering a subjective realm, a relationship also based on history, tradition, high craftsmanship, clean, simple esthetic, and just pleasure. Using my Leica M provides a sensual, esthetic, and meaningful pleasure that no other camera achieves (Hasselblad used to come close with its 500 series (V))... without any compromise regarding image quality. [And I have used Nikons, Fujis, Canons, Panasonics, Sonys... efficient tools, granted, but no match in terms of pleasure of use]. I understand that this may be irrelevant for some for many reasons, one being financial (although I bought my M2 with no money in the bank at the time but I would rather walk or take the bus than use my car... and buy a used if not battered Leica that still delivered all of the above... and I have never regretted it). For many of us it is irreplaceable, and many can live without.
Ha! One lens 🙄 that’s for wankers! My phone has 3 cameras!!!
Overpriced german product.
George Karydis nope guy, plenty people effort to purchase without you is nothing
Overheard and uttered stereotypical comment. At least could you explain why "overpriced" going a little further and deeper than the price tag?
still not clear why it has such a crazy price.