Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Leica M10 will be an M9 with a CMOS sensor. That's pretty much end of story. Is there anything else they need to fix? I'm thinking no not really. Otherwise the M9 is an extension of the M system going back to the M8, M7, M6 and I cant type backwards too much longer. The Leica viewfinder is a primary Leica asset which is not broke and does not need to be fixed and certainly not rethought. Again its been slowly tweaked and used for many decades. At first with the first M8's they had some problems with the digital conversion of the focal lengths but they got it fixed. And now those conversions are not in effect as the M9 is full frame. What issues were there with the M9? Plenty of people here have them and I cant recall any being discussed. I don't think the camera needs any real work and its not Leica's style to do so unnecessarily. Leica has not gotten into the obsolescence game too much in the past century. Most of their cameras were able to be upgraded every year for all current features of the current body. The Leica LTM and then M camera is an extension of optical mechanical tradition going back to 1920 and the microscopes they made before that. Its not something they're going to be asking software designers in silicon valley to rethink for them. Perhaps they'll ask some retired Swiss watch makers if any are still alive? Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:35:58 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Some technical speculations re: rangefinder > > Can't be THAT hard. It would amaze you what can be done in SW, and then > implemented in HW. > > If you make it a priority of your design team...... > > But let me go back to basic RF cameras..... > > If you employ LiveView in the VF ( which I believe is called EVF or > something like that), and you use a really good LCD/LED display for the > image, you are basically looking through a SLR camera. Better than that is > the fact that you are actually looking at the "film" plane . No more out > of > focus adjustment cameras or lenses.... WYSIWYG. Period. Make the LCD a > really good one, and it would make a surprisingly good focusing system. > Noctilux capable..... > > Did I mention cheap? I should have..... > > And the implementation of AF is pretty easy, but then again, how do you > make > the M mount lenses move in and out for focusing? Move the mounting plane? > > Personally, I like the idea of an EVF..... > > I do not like the idea of a big honking rear mounted LCD that is my primary > focusing and viewing device... Ii think those are insufficient to promote > good technique. > > Let's just hope Leica actually makes a M10 at a price point we can > afford.... God knows, the M9 MSRP was way above mine..... > > ( Thanks John.....!) > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information