[Leica] Leica M10

[Sonny Carter]

Live view is far more than just  a useful function once you get accustomed
to it.

Even if the bucks weren't an issue, I'd pass until the Leica Live View
stops being a clip-on accessory.  Otherwise, the M10 looks to be a
competent camera.

SonC

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
wrote:

> The video feature, once you can do Liveview, is a bunch of code.   Costs
> nothing in hardware.  Liveview seems like a useful function.  Testing focus
> accuracy, maybe dark places, maybe awkward position of the camera compared
> to the eye....
> I have had 4 cameras that do video.  Have no idea if it works or not on
> any of them.
>
> For others, it is a must have......
> To each his own.....
>
> The Real Leica Macho Man ( Woman), would never use it......  It is not
> traditional, it is not film, it is not B+W, it is not ..Henri
> Cartier-Bresson macho.
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
> Cameras are designed by committees of marketers and engineers, both people
> that tend to load cameras with unimportant features. One of those is video.
> I'll bet that many of us on this list, photographers all, have never shot
> a video with our digital camera,
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> So is this simply a specification issue or is it a real problem?
>
> I see the M10 as being what a digital Leica should be. Every “modern”
> digital I have shoots video. The number of times I have used that
> capability? Less than 1% of the time I spend taking photos and literally no
> one has ever seen the video results. Hard to hang video on the wall
> (although the new LG TV might make me eat those words).
>
> Adam Bridge
>
>
>
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