Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:25:20 -0400

Leica will progress its just going to take its time like usual doing it.
There must be some reason its hard to get a better sensor in it right now.
But it will happen in the next year or so.


Mark William Rabiner
Photography



> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:14:38 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff
> 
> Mark, it has been rumored for months that the new camera will not have any
> new tech, regardless how much it would make sense or how much wishful
> thinking there was.
> 
> I am afraid that Leica is going back to to the "make special edition and
> milk the collector's market" mindset.
> 
> Being wildly successful with the M9 is not a surprise - whatnot with all 
> the
> pent up demand from people just waiting for years to use their Leica lens.
> The biggest surprise with the M9 was the full frame sensor, and it was as
> much as a surprise as it was BECAUSE Leica had been saying it could not be
> done with the current technology - well, the current technology caught up
> and it could then be done. In any case, there are many areas where Leica 
> can
> innovate and remain true to its rangefinder DNA, but Leica needs to act.
> 
> However, I suspect that this will end up just being another peak in Leica's
> history. They can continue to be successful, but they need to innovate in
> the high end and get into the "mass market" with a M8.3. But Herr Kaufmann
> and Herr Daniels can do no wrong right at this moment and Geoff said that
> they thought something like an M8.3 is braindead. We shall see in 3 years
> that how competitive the M10 will be.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> The M9-P a huge disappointment because they really do need to keep moving
>> in
>> the design of this camera and have a sensor which competes with Canon and
>> Nikon full frame instead of paying off top pros to be seen using it.
>> I really thought there was big news here on that.
>> But a compact 21 is pretty nice.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov at charter.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:15:11 -0700
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff
>>> 
>>> The new 21mm is exciting. The "new" M9-P, well, that's a real yawn!
>>> As I currently use the LTM, I wonder what the Chinese marketplace will do
>> with
>>> that bayonet?
>>> S.d.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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