{"id":52361,"date":"2013-11-25T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=52361"},"modified":"2013-11-25T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T04:52:38","slug":"leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-sold-for-usd1-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-sold-for-usd1-8-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Leica M camera designed by Jony Ive sold for USD1.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone actually fork out USD1.8 million for a Leica M camera. Of course, this is not an ordinary Leica M camera. It is designed by Apple&#8217;s Jony Ive and\u00a0Marc Newson, and it is one of the kind in the world today.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52362\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-sold-for-usd1-8-million\/john-ive-leica-m-camera\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?fit=600%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"john-ive-leica-m-camera\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?fit=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?fit=600%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52362\" alt=\"john-ive-leica-m-camera\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?resize=600%2C390\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It has the minimalist look like every Apple product. However, in my opinion, it may not be practical in a real life. I would like my camera to have protruding dials for easy change of functions instead of flat dials (unless I am missing something here). BTW, this is one of the items for Sotheby&#8217;s RED charity auction to fight AIDS in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/jony-ive-designed-leica-m-camera-just-sold-for-an-insan-1470860771\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>, they expect the camera to be sold around USD500,000 to USD750,000 but I guess someone (rich) really like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52363\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-sold-for-usd1-8-million\/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-and-marc-newson-for-red\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?fit=394%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"394,445\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?fit=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?fit=394%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52363\" alt=\"Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?resize=394%2C445\" width=\"394\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?w=394&amp;ssl=1 394w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Leica-M-camera-designed-by-Jony-Ive-and-Marc-Newson-for-RED.png?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[ad#img]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/jony-ive-designed-leica-m-camera-just-sold-for-an-insan-1470860771\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/leicarumors.com\/2013\/11\/24\/leica-m-camera-designed-by-jony-ive-and-marc-newson-for-red-sold-for-1-8-miilon.aspx\/#ixzz2lcEPX6hF\" target=\"_blank\">source2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone actually fork out USD1.8 million for a Leica M camera. Of course, this is not an ordinary Leica M camera. It is designed by Apple&#8217;s Jony Ive and Marc..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[96,14],"tags":[7452,11836,43,6251,15934,11834,1715,11837,11835,5097],"class_list":["post-52361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera","category-techie","tag-africa","tag-aids","tag-apple","tag-auction","tag-camera","tag-jony-ive","tag-leica","tag-leica-m","tag-marc-newson","tag-red"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/john-ive-leica-m-camera.jpg?fit=600%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-dCx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52366,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52361\/revisions\/52366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}