>>3648388>Be honest, you'd cover up the red dot in a bad neighbourhood.No?
Are you positing a hypothetical world where I'm in the slums of East St. Louis and there's a crackhead there looking at me and thinking to themselves "Oh my, is that a red Leica logo I spy? That man has a Leica M9 digital rangefinder! Despite being over a decade old, those still hold their value remarkably well due to the Leica cachet, plus the fact that some people value (rationally or not) the look achieved with a CCD sensor over the more common CMOS sensors available in most digital cameras today. If only he had a genuine Leica lens on it instead of an inferior Chinese knockoff--those frequently sell for much more than the camera body itself. I shall mug him, take his Leica, and go pawn it for crack money."
No, they'll be thinking "Shit, that's a big camera, I can steal it and pawn it for crack money". The branding isn't really particularly important.
(For the record, I shoot a lot in shitty neighborhoods and have never once been hassled. Most people in shitty neighborhoods just want to live their lives in peace, just like everyone else)
