Fujifilm X100T (beta) real-world samples

I don’t own a Leica. I never will. In the 1970’s, there were many ordinary film cameras, nothing special – not ever SLR’s , with the chromed brass finish – cheap cameras like the Olympus Pen, Canon QL, Minolta HiMatic, Yashica, etc. You find them at garage sales for a few dollars and with a clean up they look new. These were also products for the everyday man, not for the elite, like Leica. So did brass suddenly become only for the super rich? The cameras I refer to were easily affordable to Joe Public. They were mass produced. If you are in this modern age going to recreate that look, at least do it with materials that have some durability. And while we are on the mass market affordable stuff, the X100 series is by no means cheap and it is by every means marketed as a premium product. Make no mistake, I own an X100s and I think its very nice, takes good images. I just resent fake authenticity.