Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, Leica has had a few areas to struggle over in becoming a digital camera manufacturer. One of them was the thickness of the camera. I think most film M camera users would like a digital M the thickness of an M4, but that won't happen with the sensor, filter pack and display screen adding to the thickness. So if Leica invents a new mount with a register that is a lot thinner than that of the M, it will allow future cameras (M's and T's and whatever) to have a thinner body. Electronics, batteries and other subsystems will require less and less space, and the M can become thin again, but not with the traditional M mount. In the future M's might well use the same mount, as it has lots of space, and the T->M adapter only needs some pass through electronics for the coding and a mechanical pass-thru for the rangefinder. Should be possible. The new lenses for the M and the T could be purely T mount. The next M's could be basically mechanical with respect to the rangefinder, like the present M240 and new ones could be autofocus with hybrid finders of some sort or another. I would think that's the plan, or at least the new mount leaves all those options open. Henning The next M might use the On 2014-04-24, at 3:04 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > The camera would have to be deeper to take an M mount natively, so to keep > it thin why not a different mount? > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > On Behalf Of Jim Laurel > > To be clear, I wasn't wondering about sensor size in my previous post. > After all, the M mount already supports full-frame, so why shouldn't it > work for APS-C? What necessitated the new mount? I just don't see why the > M-Mount could not be "enhanced" to include the contacts needed for AE and > AF. I'm sure there were good reasons behind the decision, I'm just curious > to know what they are. I'm betting that the reason had to do with > marketing and/or product segmentation. > > I hope we'll actually see some benefit from the small sensor in the T > series, mainly compact lenses. > > > On Apr 24, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> ?I'm wondering (Jim Laurel) if the reason Leica decided to make this a >> little sensor is that they were not able to solve the color cast >> problem with full frame mirror-less wide angles??? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com