Apple designer Jony Ive's custom charity Leica rangefinder revealed

[Rienzphotoz]

The Pentax K-01 is much sexier than this!

Sounds like you read my 'not so nice' post on ugly Panty x cameras ... oops, I meant Pentax cameras

 

[pdirestajr]

The Pentax K-01 is much sexier than this!

Sounds like you read my 'not so nice' post on ugly Panty x cameras ... oops, I meant Pentax cameras

No I haven't. Post link please.

 

[Ewinter]

Looks like Apple need some design lessons from Fuji.
If I wanted a camera that looked like an mp3 dock, I'd buy a samsung NX

 

[Pinchers of Peril]

Those speakers better be stereo and they better have bass boost

 

[Rienzphotoz]

The Pentax K-01 is much sexier than this!

Sounds like you read my 'not so nice' post on ugly Panty x cameras ... oops, I meant Pentax cameras

No I haven't. Post link please.

No way I'm gonna post that link here ... that would be like asking for hate mail and trouble from all the good folk who use Pentax ... but I sent you a PM with the link ;D

 

[Badger]

You folks are too funny! Glad we are not taking ourselves too seriously I guess I've been an Ive fan for years and can appreciate how many of the things we use today look the way they do because of him. This camera wasn't an Apple project, but rather a collaboration for charity. Who ever buys this camera will never use it. Think of it like the prototypes you see at car shows. Many of them are just exercises in design.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/11/jony-ive-marc-newson-design-auction

 

[Rienzphotoz]

You folks are too funny! Glad we are not taking ourselves too seriously I guess I've been an Ive fan for years and can appreciate how many of the things we use today look the way they do because of him. This camera wasn't an Apple project, but rather a collaboration for charity. Who ever buys this camera will never use it. Think of it like the prototypes you see at car shows. Many of them are just exercises in design.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/11/jony-ive-marc-newson-design-auction

+1

 

[fugu82]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

 

[Ewinter]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

This ^

 

[Zv]

Here is an image gallery.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/8/4816486/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive

Interesting ... thanks for sharing.

I'm sure Pentax could use some design lessons from Johnny Ive!

So, you've been stalking my 'not so nice' post about Pentax ;D

Man your Pentax rant was funny! I genuinely made me laugh every time you said "ugly". Pentax got no alibi! They just plain ugly!

 

[Zv]

How much time and money was spent developing this thing?? Wouldn't it be better to just hand the money over to a charity rather than waste it making something uselessly expensive and exclusive? This has f--- all to do with charity and more to do with gaining attention in a "look at us, we're so awesome" way.

The anonymous charity donations are the real heroes.

 

[mrsfotografie]

How much time and money was spent developing this thing?? Wouldn't it be better to just hand the money over to a charity rather than waste it making something uselessly expensive and exclusive? This has f--- all to do with charity and more to do with gaining attention in a "look at us, we're so awesome" way.

The anonymous charity donations are the real heroes.

+1

I doubt this thing was created without a business case.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

Can you please post an image of your pasta drainer/colander that looks better than that Leica

 

[AlanF]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

Can you please post an image of your pasta drainer/colander that looks better than that Leica

Here are several hundred that look better:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=colander&client=firefox-a&hs=5pI&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pvBXUoj3NsrB0QXms4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1705&bih=1222&dpr=1

 

[mackguyver]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

Can you please post an image of your pasta drainer/colander that looks better than that Leica

Here are several hundred that look better:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=colander&client=firefox-a&hs=5pI&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pvBXUoj3NsrB0QXms4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1705&bih=1222&dpr=1

LOL - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I agree, my first thought was how ugly it was. Considering Ive's other work, maybe I was just expecting more, but it's not much to look at, at least to me.

 

[Fleetie]

I agree this guy does seem to have succeeded in making a sow's ear out of a silk purse.

 

[mrsfotografie]

Well. I've been an Apple fan since the Mac Plus, but I've drained pasta in better-looking hardware than that Leica.

Can you please post an image of your pasta drainer/colander that looks better than that Leica

Here are several hundred that look better:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=colander&client=firefox-a&hs=5pI&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pvBXUoj3NsrB0QXms4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1705&bih=1222&dpr=1

LOL - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I agree, my first thought was how ugly it was. Considering Ive's other work, maybe I was just expecting more, but it's not much to look at, at least to me.

Looks like Ive's done a colander too. In this case it's both 'Apple' & 'Pear' Design ;D

 

[michi]

I like how the front looks, but the back looks like a microwave...

 

[dickgrafixstop]

OK, it's done. It doesn't matter how much time it took, how much it cost or what the motivation was. Ive is a
very respected designer and Leica is very much a boutique brand. I'm sure reflections of this motif will show up
in future Leica products and Leicaphiles - or Leicaphobes - will snap them up. There aren't too many other examples of camera companies coming up with "leading edge" designs and most cameras look like most cameras.
It might be an ergonomic problem - after all, if you put a car design in a wind tunnel to minimize drag, the logo
on the front doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

An earlier post said they thought this will sell for a quarter mil, Southeby's estimates $500-750K. I'm betting some Saudi prince, Russian tycoon or Chinese industrialist pays over a mil and we'll never hear of it again.

 

[Ewinter]

OK, it's done. It doesn't matter how much time it took, how much it cost or what the motivation was. Ive is a
very respected designer and Leica is very much a boutique brand. I'm sure reflections of this motif will show up
in future Leica products and Leicaphiles - or Leicaphobes - will snap them up. There aren't too many other examples of camera companies coming up with "leading edge" designs and most cameras look like most cameras.
It might be an ergonomic problem - after all, if you put a car design in a wind tunnel to minimize drag, the logo
on the front doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

An earlier post said they thought this will sell for a quarter mil, Southeby's estimates $500-750K. I'm betting some Saudi prince, Russian tycoon or Chinese industrialist pays over a mil and we'll never hear of it again.

There's the difference between an innovative design and a camera so gross looking they'd have to pay me $500-750k to use it.