Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: new LHSA camera is being worked on but something is wrong about
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (feli)
Date: Wed Jun 22 08:20:12 2005
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On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:08 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote:

>
> I mean, they've made variations on their basic M body with silk  
> shutter -
> with its strenths and limitations - for decades. Keep making them. But
> why not try a different design?  With different strengths and  
> limitations?


What would everyone change? What is so desperately lacking, besides a  
digital version?

If they make the M AF, the whole point of it being a rangefinder  
would go out the window.
Redesign the RF so the framelines compensate for focal length shift?
Upgrade the metering system? I don't know, what's in there works  
pretty darn well. The AE
in the M7 is pretty bulletproof.

A lot of people complain that the camera has only evolved minimally  
sicne the M3, but what would they
change or add?

Personally I would like to see a digital M, and a more elegant  
exposure compensation dial on the M7
and a return of the old size 50mm framelines. But that's about it.  
Other than that I think the camera is
pretty much perfect.


feli



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