[Leica] If you could add only 1 feature.....

[Charlie Chan]

Upgradable modular sensors would be great, so that the camera bodies of today do not become pretty paperweights in only a few years time. Buying a film Leica was like buying a camera for life. Sadly digital cameras aren't like that. But wouldn't it be great if all that precision engineering did not go to waste over time.

Charlie

Charlie Chan
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On 20 Oct 2014, at 08:34, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> A zooming viewfinder is one thing.
> A zooming accurate rangefinder otoh is something else entirely...
> It would probably more than double the manufacturing cost of the camera.
> Electronics = cheap, and getting cheaper.
> Precision mechano-optical engineering = very expensive indeed.
> Sadly.
> 
> I would like autofocus, but realise that is not feasible on the M line.
> 
> Frank D.
> 
> 
> On 19 Oct, 2014, at 20:37, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> 
>> A zooming optical VF so we could have a 24-50 Zoom-Elmarit M. This was a regular feature of P&S digital cameras with built-in zooms before the Gods of the Industry decreed optical VFs unnecessary. Why wouldn't Leica be able to manage an acceptable one?
>> 
>> —howard
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>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> If you could add only 1 feature to your current Leica camera ( no matter
>>> which digital you own), what would you add?
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>>> Frank Filippone
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>>> Red735i at verizon.net
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