Leica M9-P Edition Hermès camera

What a ridiculous price for a Camera, this is outrageous, it will take no better photographs, than my old 35mm S.L.R. camera. This just shows the way the world is, it has turned greedy.

This camera is not made of 24 caret gold, so why the high price tag, it's only a camera and no more.

Whilst this is a ridiculously expensive snapper, the Leica brand represents the pinnacle in compact camera design and quality. The inclusion of their lenses in the Panasonic 'Lumix' range of cameras for ordinary people bears this out.

One sign of real quality and desirability is the lack of a prominently displayed logo. You need to know what this product is to really appreciate it, when it is left nonchalantly on the bistro table. This is at complete variance with stupid 'designer' goods (handbags, sunglasses, etc.,) which are acquired mainly for the display of their vulgar and prominent labels to supposedly envious others.

£36 000 for a camera? I wonder what it does, let say for example if I take picture and print it off can I slap people in that picture and make them feel the pain? Or can it zoom in from London to New York.

Give money to Josephine and other kids in Africa they are dying without food.

Bob Bridges mentions that, as this product does not have a prominent logo displayed on it, it will somehow be more vulnerable to counterfeiting? No!

Counterfeiters trade solely on the rabid desire of impressionable buyers to have possessions with prominent logos on display (e.g. handbags, sunglasses, even those dreadful knitted hats!).

In the world of 'designer logos', often the quality of the product is no better than a much more modestly priced 'un-branded' equivalent and, in any event, it is probably made in the same factory by the same (often misearably paid) workers.

So its being launched next week, that's great as I'm flying to Hong Kong week after next so I should be able too pick one up on one of the markets for about a fiver, it will look great with my Rolex watch and channel handbag.