Each time you think Leica has gone completely off the rails, something comes along to whisper, "It can always get worse."
What is it this time? Well, watch your gag reflex. It's the "Leica M-P ‘Correspondent’ Designed by Lenny Kravitz."
You can't make this stuff up:
Many Leica cameras are unique. But now, all 125 examples of the strictly limited Leica M-P ‘Correspondent’ set are all unique, each in its own way. An elaborate wearing process completely by hand has carefully rubbed, scuffed and scratched the black enamel finish away in several places on both the camera and lenses to let the bright brass surface shine through. The look changes every time the camera and lenses are touched and begins new, personally written chapters in the story of their design.
That's right. It's a special limited-edition pre-brassed Leica, with a name calculated to taunt every actual photojournalist who has ever actually used a Leica hard enough to put real wear on it. (Especially those of them who are now out of work.)
As for the, um—aaack!—designer: "Lenny Kravitz is famous around the world as an exceptional and very successful musician. But he treats photography with his Leica with exactly the same passion."
Translations:
"Exceptional and very successful musician." Did one of the best-ever covers of The Guess Who's "American Woman."
"Exactly the same passion." Steals classic-rock guitar riffs then proclaims rock and roll is dead.
May I just bring to this post exactly the same passion as Perez Hilton? "Bitch, please!"
(I swear I have never actually spoken that phrase—I'm a grown man, after all—but I did warn you to watch your gag reflex.)
I knew BMW had finally gone off the rails when I learned they were piping fake engine noises into the cabin using the stereo system. Perhaps the "Lenny Kravitz M-P Correspondent" marks the official Jump the Shark moment for the new revived digital-era Leica?
Your thoughts? (And does this post go into our category "Cameras, New" or "Cameras, Old"?)
Mike
(Thanks to O.G.)
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