[Leica] Move over Q, here comes AIR

[Howard Ritter]

Neither did Mae West.

This does sound like a very viable idea. When you’re carrying around a big, tremendously high-resolution touch screen (much bigger and better than the 1-Mpx LCDs on the backs of even the high-end “real” cameras) and a whole bunch of memory in your pocket every day already, why not use it in conjunction with a decent-sized lens and sensor without taking on all the baggage of another screen and all the structure needed to support it and attach it to the lens/sensor and provide all the mechanical controls that are part of a “real” camera? Other than doing without a viewfinder, I don’t see much downside to it.

Leica should do it too, with a FF sensor, an M flange, and an R adapter. And a Monochrom model. Any leica glass ever made, through-the-lens viewfinding, immediate connectivity, in-device rudimentary post-processing, video for those so inclined...

—howard


> And I find nothing wrong with having a bulge in my pocket.
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> On Jul 01, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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>> 1. Turns you into a person professing a serious interest in photography
>> looking for an excuse to leave your camera at home so you never have to put
>> down your iPhone.
>> 2. Turns your beloved slippery smart phone into something making a bulge in
>> your pocket. Won't slip in and out of your pocket so fast. But get caught on
>> the stitching. You might need to go out and get a Captain Kangaroo jacket.
>> 3, Is having a separate compact camera really such a hassle? Its not like
>> you are juggling the camera with its battery and sensor in the air all at
>> the same time. Its all fits in the camera.
>> 4. 4/3's glass or Leica glass does not make the tiny sensor on your smart
>> phone any bigger. It just makes it more ridiculous.
>> 5. Put a real camera in your other pocket.
>> 6. The sensors on smart phones are so small its near impossible to get the
>> spec on just how small they are. What is a normal lens for a smart phone
>> 4mm's? If they told you they'd have to kill you.
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>> On 6/30/15 5:05 PM, "Dante Stella" <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:
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>>> Everything you detest about separate cameras (more batteries, cards, bulk)
>>> combined with everything you hate about taking smartphone pictures (slippery
>>> phones, clumsy applications). What could go wrong?!
>> 
>> Dante
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