Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now if only someone could actually afford these new products... Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:16:57 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Leica] Maybe it really is an M9+++ ? The Titanium edition of the M9 did not interest me until I started looking around at the pictures and technology involved.... If the M9 Titanium edition has no RF illumination window, is it really a M9 Special Edition or another beast ? The M9++? Someone commented on the lack of strap lugs... how about the lack of VF selection lever????? Where did that go? Maybe we should be spending more attention to the new feature and less time to the materials and price......? Do we have a M10 here??????? Just found the official Leica blurb on the M9 Titanium,,,,, Relevant details..... "New features include the LED illumination of the bright-line frames in the viewfinder, removing the necessity for a standard illuminating window and making the front aspect of the camera even more balanced." Forget the "design" features and get onto the technology established here...... VF Lines that you can read, in dark light, with (presumably ) corrected size, and less internal mechanical guts.... Sounds pretty important to me..... Then I found this picture..... http://en.leica-camera.com/assets/media/img17967.jpg Which clearly shows a wall of pictures of cameras in a family tree presentation.... And the guy is holding a camera with a "button" just to the right of the lens mount... what is that all about? What are these pictures? Design concepts? What is the camera on the lower right? The top looks like it was cut off....????? This Special edition is getting more interesting from a technology standpoint.... for all of us.... Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information