Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] LCD Protector for M9
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:22:59 +0000
References: <C70B1FE2.574CC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

For me the Leica M9 is spot on. They could have made it just for me :-)
I, for one would not trade less resolution for higher iso, though of  
course higher iso would not be a retrograde step...
Frank


On 26 Oct, 2009, at 13:44, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> If Leica continues to produce a M9 after 2 or 3 years, it won't be  
>> the
>> same camera inside. If that will be the case, why not call it a M10?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Spencer
>
>
> Because an M10 indicates a whole new design like the difference   
> between the
> M3 and M3, M2 and M4, any of those and the M6.
> And for sure the M5 did not resemble any of them
>
> If the some of the electronic companies are not made any more and the
> results you'd get from the new component in there as noticeably  
> different
> they'd call it an M9-2 or somthin like that.
>
> Like the M4-2 or M4-p or M6 TTL
>
> If its not quite the same camera they call it something a little  
> different.
>
> A M10 could have a redone rangefinder viewfinder that zooms so you  
> could
> have zooms.
> A built in hard disk.
> AF with the body moving the lens.
> Any number of combination of real noticeable advances which makes the
> shooting experience into really something else.
> And nothing that I can think of that I'd want.
> I don't want no M10. I don't need no M10.
>
> But the M9 as is is a commercial photographers camera in the body of  
> a photo
> journalists camera.  A Leica M.
> You don't need 18 MP's - you do need higher ISO's for a Leica M  
> digital.
> A tweak of that slightly different camrea is due very very soon.
> As there are plenty of people whose such DSLR's you're not going to  
> pry out
> of their hands unless you match their specs a little closer.
> The M9 needs to not be competing against the super high end super  
> cameras
> with their jacked up MP's and sawed off ISO's and 8 grand price  
> tags. Like
> the Nikon D3x.
> It needs go go up against the D3s. Costing 4 grand. The Leica would  
> cost 5
> or 6.
>
> I don't know the Canon stuff and I'm not going to look it up.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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