Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/24/06 5:12:47 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes: > If the M8 sells well, then I would expect to see used ones beginning to > appear next year. Especially if Leica succeeds in expanding into new > market segments, because this would mean the there would be people who > buy it, try it, and decide that it is not for them after all. If it does > not sell well, then this will not happen, because the only people who > would have bought it are the committed ones (like the members of this > list), and they will tend to hang on to their M8s. But then Leica as a > company will have big problems... --Nathan > ------------------------------ Nathan, I have the gut feeling that the M8 will usher in a new Leica epoch. I think the breakout and cleanup hitter will be the M9, a full frame digital that will take ALL M lenses. I also suppose it may only be a year away from the ballpark. Those powerful 24x36mm sensors are probably already in production. You ain't seen nothin' yet. I hope the M9 will feature an LCD viewer that will permit closeups to be made without parallax, as though we were using a Focaslide. That is, we could focus as though the M9 were a view camera, but the image would be right side up. What an M that would be! Bob