Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Mirrorless Cameras => Topic started by: Alan Smallbone on January 14, 2014, 12:02:46 pm
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Hurry and jump on this, limited to 200 lucky "Lunies" ;D
http://photorumors.com/2014/01/13/new-hasselblad-lunar-limited-edition-camera-announced/#more-53100
Alan
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If you have money, why not? (Well I can think of several global health initiatives that could make better use of the funds, but that requires a different mindset.)
If you don't have the do-re-mi then why bother getting upset about this.
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"in its highly popular Lunar range"
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Who was upset Ellis, I thought it was funny.... ;D If someone wants to waste the money that is fine with me, I just thought it was funny and looked ugly... but that is just my opinion.
Alan
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That is the go-to camera for taking pictures like this (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oPsy-FERcrg/TP_pvZgubLI/AAAAAAAADXM/RCYDkSO-2kQ/s1600/vintage-car-rear-tail-fins-1950s-cadillac.jpeg).
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If you have money, why not? (Well I can think of several global health initiatives that could make better use of the funds, but that requires a different mindset.)
If you don't have the do-re-mi then why bother getting upset about this.
It's not about getting upset, it's the absurdity of the whole thing.
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Vomitive!
Please don't post these kind of aberrations here at Lula.
Eduardo
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probably should be posting on a collectables web site. I sense an opportunity here - is there a way to short the Lunar?
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a "Real Collector" would get two or three in sequential serial numbers
not sure there is enough liquidity to short it, but sounds like a plan if you can manage to borrow any...
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Ok, say you have the opportunity to spend about $250,000 and rake in about $2,000,000, pretty much guaranteed. Yes, some of your loyal customers will spend a few moments being outraged, but another demographic of your customers will be incredibly excited about the opportunity to buy one and add it to their collection of other high-end unwrapped, unopened, climate-controlled, vault-stored collection of prestige cameras (hello, Japanese Leica collectors!). This camera isn't for photographers, after all, it's for a small cult of collectors who may not even take the camera out of the box, and who couldn't tell an f-stop from a stop bath.
Would you turn up your nose at the chance for an easy 800% profit?
Maybe we should just join the bandwagon. Let's encourage Hasselblad to sell MORE of these, and allow us to invest our own money in the production costs in exchange for a similarly high rate of return. Each year, we'll each give them $2000 and they'll return $8000...
Would that be enough to make you look the other way for a month or two?
;)
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better idea;
we pool our money, and Michael's too to form a hedge fund and buy out the production. Then we sell them to afore described "collectors" at even higher prices since we have them all and can charge whatever we want. Then we just wait…
and buy them back at .10 -.20 in the future.
what could go wrong…?
Ok, say you have the opportunity to spend about $250,000 and rake in about $2,000,000, pretty much guaranteed. Yes, some of your loyal customers will spend a few moments being outraged, but another demographic of your customers will be incredibly excited about the opportunity to buy one and add it to their collection of other high-end unwrapped, unopened, climate-controlled, vault-stored collection of prestige cameras (hello, Japanese Leica collectors!). This camera isn't for photographers, after all, it's for a small cult of collectors who may not even take the camera out of the box, and who couldn't tell an f-stop from a stop bath.
Would you turn up your nose at the chance for an easy 800% profit?
Maybe we should just join the bandwagon. Let's encourage Hasselblad to sell MORE of these, and allow us to invest our own money in the production costs in exchange for a similarly high rate of return. Each year, we'll each give them $2000 and they'll return $8000...
Would that be enough to make you look the other way for a month or two?
;)
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To repurpose a comment Jim Lager made to me about 20 years ago, "They are becoming The Franklin Mint of camera companies". Jim was talking about Leica's special editions, which were equally absurd.