Lenny Kravitz, by virtue of being a medium-popular pop-rock singer, and by virtue of apparently sometimes using a Leica camera, has achieved the status of now being a Leica designer!
His "design" consists of no more changes to the camera than having machines and assistants rubbing off the black paint in corners and some areas on a black Leica camera, so it looks like it has been used a lot! Awesome...
(Having seen some documentaries about how things work in Celebrity World, I would be surprised if Lenny even had anything to do himself with this design "idea".)
Read Mike Johnston's no less sarcastic take on this.
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Reminds me of the $200+ distressed jeans I see women wearing these days with the fabric worn away to look like they're 10 years old instead of new!
They should have had Seal "design" it - he's a serious photographer. Kravitz probably figured out how to use a Leica by taking pictures of himself in front of one of his many full-length mirrors.
Is it that people today are too lazy to wear things in like the old days? I see different places selling t-shirts of the "distressed" type - it's too hard to wear that AC/DC shirt long enough to get the look for real! I guess. :-)
One issue is that it takes 20 years of daily use to make a Leica look like that. Just try and shoot with a 20-year-old digital camera, I dare ya. :-)
Maybe they need to make it so you can swap out the insides. Then you can still upgrade but you get that worn in look.
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