Naturally of course, the process of producing an extremely limited quantity (600 worldwide) of a groundbreaking, inherently complex and exacting product such as a digital camera, is from start to finish both time consuming and inordinately expensive to achieve. New materials require alternative tooling and machining methods, as well as differing approaches to construction and so on. Then there’s the specially written camera firmware, the bespoke packaging and the fact that the M Edition 60 also comes with a lens, the Summilux 35mm f/1.4.