Like so many apple products, it probably feels great to touch, but bad to hold.
Jonathan Ive designs Leica camera for Red charity
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#22> 85 days and more than 735 hours > more than 550 models and 1,000 prototype parts were made and tested... 55 engineers worked on the process. Uhh... I think they spent more developing this than what it will fetch. Wouldn't it have been better to just donate the money? A 500k donation at the expense of that many resources...
It's called marketing. Ive "designing" a limited edition Leica is like Murakami being involved with Louis Vuitton. Lecia needs people to believe that their cameras are worth a lot of money and involve a much greater amount of design work and craftsmanship than a standard Canon.
For the curious, Murakami = Takashi Murakami.
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#23Looking at that, without reading the text, I thought immediately that it looked like Marc Newson's work rather than Jony Ive's. Then I read the text: > Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson I would say that Marc did most of this, and Jony either just created the collaboration and put his name to it, or his touch was reasonably light. The only part that really looks like Ive's stamp…
Really? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see it, there is a Dieter Rams influence to it that says Jony Ive more than Marc Newson to me.
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#24I suppose people that buy these will just put them on a shelf, but if not, those perforations are going to fill with garbage.
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#25"Aluminium case with tens of thousands of individual perforations" sounds so much fancier than "metal screen".
Metal screens are just stamped or rolled sheet metal, while these perforations are made by a CNC mill from the same piece of aluminium as the rest of the body.
Might not mean anything to a layperson but watching a CNC mill make thousands of precision perforations would be quite a sight.
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#26Looking at that, without reading the text, I thought immediately that it looked like Marc Newson's work rather than Jony Ive's. Then I read the text: > Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson I would say that Marc did most of this, and Jony either just created the collaboration and put his name to it, or his touch was reasonably light. The only part that really looks like Ive's stamp…
Really? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see it, there is a Dieter Rams influence to it that says Jony Ive more than Marc Newson to me.
It really screamed Rams to me as well (much more than Ive), even more than Newson as well.
It doesn't look to me like a Rams/Braun product though, but a product that's trying to be one.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, but it's not a direct equivalent. Do you think Jony Ive's contract with Apple allows moonlighting?
I didn't mean he should have sold his time to another company..
It's possible he can't (via a contract) but can donate it. No idea though, just guessing.
Re: Jonathan Ive designs Leica camera for Red charity
#28Looking at that, without reading the text, I thought immediately that it looked like Marc Newson's work rather than Jony Ive's. Then I read the text: > Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson I would say that Marc did most of this, and Jony either just created the collaboration and put his name to it, or his touch was reasonably light. The only part that really looks like Ive's stamp…
It looks more like an Ive design than a Newson. Newson designed a Pentax camera last year, and it doesn't seem like any of those design elements made it into this Leica camera design.
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#29Looking at that, without reading the text, I thought immediately that it looked like Marc Newson's work rather than Jony Ive's. Then I read the text: > Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson I would say that Marc did most of this, and Jony either just created the collaboration and put his name to it, or his touch was reasonably light. The only part that really looks like Ive's stamp…
The shutter speed dial really looks like Ive's work to me. Although it's hard to say. This Leica bears absolutely no resemblance to Newson's Pentax K-01, but perhaps that's just because the K-01 was a camera that was actually intended to be used rather than stuffed away in a billionaire Leica fanatic's collection.
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#30How the hell it that top selection wheel supposed to be operated? Overall, it looks pretty similar to the normal Leica M, but with Apple-style all-aluminium coloring and more rounded corners.