Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are waiting for the middle class servants tasked with using these things to blog their opinions before announcing if any particular new feature will be in the next version. At 08:16 AM 9/21/2010, you wrote: >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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich MS, CPH Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018 at med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049