[Leica] Re: M9

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Larry, fascinating indeed. The original interview does not translate as
> elegantly via Babelfish.
> As I understand it, Herr Doktor Kaufmann is chairman of the supervisory 
> board
> of Leica Camera AG. So I don't imagine that his
> remarks in the interview were made casually! We shall see. Any bets on
> Photokina 2008? Another interesting snippet was that their
> production of M's would not exceed 12,000 annually. Not mentioned was how 
> that
> 12,000 is composed. In any combination this is not a
> large number vs the industry juggernauts of course. My reading of an 
> interview
> with Stephen Lee made me think that they have a smart
> man at the helm who appears to truly love Leica products.
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> 
> 

I don't think M9.

The M8 is the digital M body. It looks great.
There's nothing all that terribly wrong with it for a full number upgrade to
be justified.

They'd need to move the viewfinder window just a little closer to the
rangefinder window to call it something a little different.

But wait it think they've squeezed both into the same tiny little hole!


You have to be able to set which lens you're using on it in the menu.
You have to have the colors all working right like the other cameras.
The whole camera doesn't need to be entirely re thunk. Just tweaked..

You'd not even have to call it an M8.5
I'd buy it if it was the M8.2
Or in effect was one.

Or the M8tw

For tweaked.
Not Titanium white

See this is how the numbers on the bodies normally work.
http://www.overgaard.dk/leica_history_grafik/leica_familytree_350w.jpg


If they don't put something which is the equivalent of the Nikon Auto ISO in
it then 
Include Me Out.

By the way...
Auto ISO is something the Eos's from Canon don't have.

So if Herr Kaufmann is an EOS shooter we could loose out on that feature.

But I'm sure somebody in the design department shoots Nikons.

Pitch black outside I just shot a shop window an hour ago.

I looked at the thing the ISO was set on that shot to 100.

With no auto ISO I'd have the thing set to 1600.


100
200
400
800
1600
So if each f stop is a quality level the shot I took was 16 times better
than it would have been. In terms of quality levels.
2
4
8
16
If you believe in the theory of Logarithms.


I know its a leap of faith.


Mark William Rabiner
Harlem, NY

rabinergroup.com