Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] If you could add only 1 feature.....
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:40:29 +0100
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Upgradable modular sensors would be great, so that the camera bodies of 
today do not become pretty paperweights in only a few years time. Buying a 
film Leica was like buying a camera for life. Sadly digital cameras aren't 
like that. But wouldn't it be great if all that precision engineering did 
not go to waste over time.

Charlie

Charlie Chan
www.charlie-chan.co.uk



On 20 Oct 2014, at 08:34, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> 
wrote:

> A zooming viewfinder is one thing.
> A zooming accurate rangefinder otoh is something else entirely...
> It would probably more than double the manufacturing cost of the camera.
> Electronics = cheap, and getting cheaper.
> Precision mechano-optical engineering = very expensive indeed.
> Sadly.
> 
> I would like autofocus, but realise that is not feasible on the M line.
> 
> Frank D.
> 
> 
> On 19 Oct, 2014, at 20:37, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> 
>> A zooming optical VF so we could have a 24-50 Zoom-Elmarit M. This was a 
>> regular feature of P&S digital cameras with built-in zooms before the 
>> Gods of the Industry decreed optical VFs unnecessary. Why wouldn't Leica 
>> be able to manage an acceptable one?
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you could add only 1 feature to your current Leica camera ( no matter
>>> which digital you own), what would you add?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> 
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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