Digital M/Digital Rebel was Re: [Leica] Lost Faith in Leica

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

Yes and what's more the M5 is the best of the lot
IMHO, beautifully made, great meter, but it looks odd
with such a flat front with a teensy lens on it.
I love mine.
Frank

 --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Wait just a LeicaMinute there, Feli! Remember what
> happened the one time
> Leica engineers got really innovative? That one time
> they ever so
> slightly changed the design of the M - as in growing
> it ever so slightly
> in order to produce the world's first rangefinder
> with TTL metering? It
> was called the M5, and it sank faster than a hamster
> off a Nantucket
> dock because the Leica fanboy base was appalled by
> the very idea of ever
> so slightly changing the design of the M....So if
> Leica wants to sell a
> digital M to the fanboys, it damn well better look
> precisely like
> today's Ms. After all, this isn't about photography
> - it's about
> "tradition." ;-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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>
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> On Behalf Of
> Feli di Giorgio
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 6:13 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: Digital M/Digital Rebel was Re: [Leica]
> Lost Faith in Leica
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:53, Douglas M. Sharp wrote:
> > Feli,
> > I think this is what we've all been dreaming of,
> simply replacing the
> > pressure plate with a digital sensor. More or less
> what Leica is doing
> 
> > with the SLR back. But what a price !
> > Douglas
> 
> Well, if they made a digital back for the current M
> we would probably be
> limited to a x1.3 crop factor. You simply can't fit
> a full frame 
> sensor inside the film gate. And it would be clunky.
> I'm guessing a
> add-on back would protrude a good 1cm off the back
> of the camera. I
> think they would be much better off designing a
> digital M from scratch.
> And frankly it doesn't have to look EXACTLY like the
> current M, close
> would be good enough.
> 
> 
> Feli
> 
> 
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