[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> In my view, the best thing to do is to keep the things that really
> count in M photography - manual focus capability, responsiveness,
> silence and compactness; discard the nostalgia; and re-construct the M
> camera as a modern one, not a slavish simulacrum of a film camera
> designed 60 years ago.
> 
> Dante


I don't believe the huge files the M9 shoots are necessary and have said so
a dozen times on the LUG.
If the responsiveness of the camrea was an issue perhaps I'd forgo the need
to shoot compressed files and the need to have also jpegs doubling what I'm
doing which would be for what reason anyway? In case you go nuts and forget
how to open a raw file and tweak it?

On the large possible slightly cumbersome file size I can understand the
importance of doing so to be justifying Leica glass which is heads about the
rest but in price too. An near super camera would seem to do this more so
than your plain vanilla  12 MP fast high iso doable camera.
I'm sure the marketing plan is the reverse of Nikons and Canons.
Which was to come out with a workable pro 12 MP body then later come out
with a 20+ MP jacked up one for commercial photographers and fine art
photographer and sell it for 8 grand.
Leica did the reverse of this and for a logical reason.
The price point also needed to be and it had to be seen at last
superficially as "the best".

A smaller company such as Leica its first thing first; and the quicker 12 mp
camera is I feel in my bones is in the wings ready to come on - Right after
the holidays.
And that will be the superior "the best" Leica camera.
The ones high profile photo journalists and street shooters who are
traditional Leica shooters will scoop up.
None of these people ever needed high sustained burst rates few ever put
drives on their M's. But they'll get close to that  with a 12mp body.
More to the point they'll get a body with a larger pixel site enabling the
kind of ISO's DSLR street shooters are quickly getting used to.
The street shooters who used to use M" s.
We want them back in the fold again.



Mark William Rabiner