Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I dream of a camera like this. Smaller, lighter, still tough enough. Takes nice M primes, meter, hot shoe, self-timer. RF focusing and as good a finder as can be crammed into the available form factor. Maybe put the winder on the bottom to make for the longest possible RF base length on a smaller camera, or hell, just use electric auto film wind (fits into the tiny Oly, so might well save space vs. manual film wind). Being a Leica, it could have leader out auto film rewind :-) Manual focus control with optional AE. Standard compensation tweaks. Love to have mutliple metering modes (Leica semi-spot, center weighted, matrix, spot). It's all just cheap electronics (witness the N80's meter). And yes, a digital twin with a decent APS sensor with good high ISO support, and a new ultra wide "tri-elmar W" to help with the wider focal length issues. Man, why won't some company build this camera so I can go buy one or two of them :-) Scott Mark Rabiner wrote: >On 4/22/05 9:22 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> typed: > > > >>Combined VF/RF? :-) >> >>At 08:50 PM 4/22/2005, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>Right on. With today's manufacturing and what not, what's >>>feasible to "pack" into a small M mount camera? What would >>>one have to "give up" vs. an M3-7 body? What could feasibly >>>be added? >>> >>>Scott >>> >>> >>// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please >>use richard at imagecraft.com) >> >> >> >It seems to me that from the engineering and design standpoints compactness >issues have come a long way since the mid 50s. > >I think a Leica M with LTM proportions could easily be made. >And most certainly have a meter. >It could lean on electronics a bit to keep the price down; And the size >down. >That would not kill me. >And it could use less brass than the LTM's had but more lighter materials. >Titanium. And various high tech plastics. >Like with Basalt fibers from the center of the earth or some absurd thing >like that. > >I keep harping about what happened when the OM1 came out. >And forced them all to take a long hard look at their fat camera designs. >And that was when Leica came out with the CL non coincidently enough. > >Time to tighten the belt again. >Shed some excess vowels. > >I can live with electronics and plastics. CPUs and CCD's. > >Oh yes of course when they come out with this camer it comes out in two >verious. Both twins other wise. >One for film one for digital. > >And if I was running the thing I'd have the film camera be half frame. >24x18mm >Which is close enough to the size of the 1.5 crop most of us have been >working with for these last couple of years. >23.7 x 15.6mm > > > > > > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >