Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] Maybe it really is an M9+++ ?
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:16:57 -0700

The Titanium edition of the M9 did not interest me until I started looking
around at the pictures and technology involved....

If the M9 Titanium edition has no RF illumination window, is it really a M9
Special Edition or another beast ?  The M9++?

Someone commented on the lack of strap lugs... how about the lack of VF
selection lever?????   Where did that go?

Maybe we should be spending more attention to the new feature and less time
to the materials and price......?

Do we have a M10 here???????

Just found the official Leica blurb on the M9 Titanium,,,,,  Relevant
details.....

"New features include the LED illumination of the bright-line frames in the
viewfinder, removing the necessity for a standard illuminating window and
making the front aspect of the camera even more balanced."

Forget the "design" features and get onto the technology established
here......

VF Lines that you can read, in dark light, with (presumably ) corrected
size, and less internal mechanical guts....  

Sounds pretty important to me.....

Then I found this picture.....
http://en.leica-camera.com/assets/media/img17967.jpg

Which clearly shows a wall of pictures of cameras in a family tree
presentation....
And the guy is holding a camera with a "button" just to the right of the
lens mount... what is that all about?

What are these pictures?  Design concepts?  What is the camera on the lower
right?  The top looks like it was cut off....?????

This Special edition is getting more interesting from a technology
standpoint....  for all of us....

Frank Filippone
Red735i at earthlink.net






Replies: Reply from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] Maybe it really is an M9+++ ?)
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