[Leica] Leica Digital M LCD Monitor

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

The ability to view a scene with overlays through a real-time LCD on
the back would provide a lot of feedback and information not available
through the optical viewfinder.  If there is not mechanical shutter in
the Digital M then there's no obvious reason (to me) precluding it,
current practice has nothing to do with what is possible since there
are no high-end range-finder digital cameras.

Live histogram information immediately leaps to mind as a reason for
making this available although realestate could be saved by making
this information available through the viewfinder.

Adam

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:21:01 -0400, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> No camera with a "real" viewfinder has a real-time LCD, and I can't
> imagine how the digital M would have one.
> 
> 
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> Subject: [Leica] Leica Digital M LCD Monitor
> 
> In a message dated 7/11/04 10:32:17 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org
> writes:
> 
> << I would hope that by the time the digital M hits the streets they
> will be able to push up the ASA to 1600 if they haven't added an
> "optional" mode for it in the current R version. With the R 800 would
> seem adequate but for the M, well, available darkness and all demands
> 1600. >>
> ------------------------------------------
> What I'm really interested in is the quality of the real-time LCD
> monitor on
> the back of the digital M (if possible, tho LCD monitor is not real-time
> in
> the Nikon D70 DSLR that I'm presently using for digital work). The
> quality of
> the LCD monitor would make the digital M supreme, in that we would have
> the
> speed of an RF with the compositional accuracy of a reflex viewfinder. I
> hope
> Leica R&D would spend a lot of effort on that large, clear and bright
> LCD monitor.
> 
> Bob R
> 
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