Aww mate I've got a luigi strap on my xe2 and bessa r4m, beautiful beautiful products! I'd love one of his cases! Well have to what's left in the pot at the end!
The classic camera who I originally bought the m4 off that was supposedly mint and wasnt have now dropped it to near mint which it still isn't! and chucked another 100 quid on top! It's up ar £999 now!
Eh!!!
Enjoy it! I've always quite fancied an M3, but I doubt if I'll ever be able to afford one.
Just as a matter of interest, how do most people interpret 'mint'? I've always understood it to mean as new, exactly as it left the factory and unused, but does this apply to cameras and lenses?
Just as a matter of interest, how do most people interpret 'mint'? I've always understood it to mean as new, exactly as it left the factory and unused, but does this apply to cameras and lenses?
It should do, yes. Unfortunately, as eBay became more popular the term has been used more and more slackly and many class something that's in "reasonable condition for it's age" as "mint".
Something that's truly "mint", of course, shouldn't even have been used, I believe, by it's true definition.
As I understand it, it's borrowed from coin collecting, where it does indeed mean "as it left the mint" - the coin hasn't been in circulation. If cameras were graded as strictly as coins, I don't think you could call a camera that had been used "mint".
Well you could say I got an odd shaped leica in the end!!!
Rolleiflex 2.8f from the vintage and classic camera company