Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] M9 improvements
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:13:27 +0000
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Including the lower price...
I chatted to a dealer whilst in Singapore. He had huge demand and was  
expecting a price rise.
My M9 came last week, so far I am pretty pleased, and I tend to agree  
with Geoff, I would not want to add features which would inevitably  
make it bigger or heavier.
Frank

On 27 Oct, 2009, at 00:57, Doug Herr wrote:

> If the reports of M9 production at full capacity are true it would  
> seem that non of these changes are urgently needed.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Oct 26, 2009 8:53 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 improvements
>>
>> There is ONLY one thing that M10 needs to do, and it will double  
>> the sales.
>>
>> Change the price to $5000 :-)
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu 
>> > wrote:
>>> I can think of at least the following that would be included in a  
>>> future
>>> M10:
>>>
>>> - better high ISO performance (whether or not at the cost of  
>>> reducing pixel
>>> count must depend on the state of sensor technology in a couple of  
>>> years)
>>> - a flip-out LCD with Live View
>>> - video capability
>>> - geo tagging and other snazzy features found on modern cameras
>>> - wifi or bluetooth or 3G/4G capability
>>>
>>> Not all of these are important to me personally (the first two  
>>> are), but I
>>> can imagine that they are for the market.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
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>> http://rfman.wordpress.com
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>>
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Replies: Reply from drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers) ([Leica] M9 improvements)
Reply from richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] M9 improvements)
In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] M9 improvements)