Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me the Leica M9 is spot on. They could have made it just for me :-) I, for one would not trade less resolution for higher iso, though of course higher iso would not be a retrograde step... Frank On 26 Oct, 2009, at 13:44, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> If Leica continues to produce a M9 after 2 or 3 years, it won't be >> the >> same camera inside. If that will be the case, why not call it a M10? >> >> Regards, >> Spencer > > > Because an M10 indicates a whole new design like the difference > between the > M3 and M3, M2 and M4, any of those and the M6. > And for sure the M5 did not resemble any of them > > If the some of the electronic companies are not made any more and the > results you'd get from the new component in there as noticeably > different > they'd call it an M9-2 or somthin like that. > > Like the M4-2 or M4-p or M6 TTL > > If its not quite the same camera they call it something a little > different. > > A M10 could have a redone rangefinder viewfinder that zooms so you > could > have zooms. > A built in hard disk. > AF with the body moving the lens. > Any number of combination of real noticeable advances which makes the > shooting experience into really something else. > And nothing that I can think of that I'd want. > I don't want no M10. I don't need no M10. > > But the M9 as is is a commercial photographers camera in the body of > a photo > journalists camera. A Leica M. > You don't need 18 MP's - you do need higher ISO's for a Leica M > digital. > A tweak of that slightly different camrea is due very very soon. > As there are plenty of people whose such DSLR's you're not going to > pry out > of their hands unless you match their specs a little closer. > The M9 needs to not be competing against the super high end super > cameras > with their jacked up MP's and sawed off ISO's and 8 grand price > tags. Like > the Nikon D3x. > It needs go go up against the D3s. Costing 4 grand. The Leica would > cost 5 > or 6. > > I don't know the Canon stuff and I'm not going to look it up. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information