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Subject: [Leica] Hypothetical... M10 B+W.. Would you buy one?
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:40:16 -0400
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The M4-P would become the digital. 
I mean, it's hypothetical conjecture, right? 

In this case my dream B&W M10 would be a full manual, full mechanical
(as much as possible) M4-P (I'm omitting the meter to allow space for
the sensor and the electronics.) 

No LCD screen to take up that extra 3mm in back. Nothing to scratch. No
buttons to hit with a shirt button, zipper or my waist, causing the
camera to go into the SET mode or even set itself to SNAPSHOT mode,
causing me to lose a shot or killing my battery without me noticing it.
Hell, I could even put in a Neopan 1600 setting while I'm at it I
guess. Yet another position on the switch under the bottom plate. 

No jpeg, only RAW, of course.

It'll have to be able to handle the 21mm Super Angulon and the DR
Summicron at the very least. If it's a black and white camera, no 6-bit
coded flange needed because I like the way my uncoded 21mm SA files
look after just a small amount of work in my RAW converter. It's B&W,
there will be no red edges.

Last year I actually asked Leica if they could remove the M9 self timer
LED as well as the display inside the VF and they said "NO." They will
remove the 135mm framelines (or any other set) for almost $400USD.

Phil Forrest


On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:52:09 -0400
Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hmmm, interesting thought, Phil.
> 
> What about the M4-P do you want on that chopped M9, the manual
> shutter advance (a la RD1)?
> 
> The angled rewind would have to go; I don't see any purpose for it.
> 
> The rangefinder is the M9 version, or do you want the LED display 
> eliminated?
> 
> I suppose it would need the 6-bit sensor on the lens mount.  And the 
> internal clearance corrected for the DR Summicron.
> 
> ....Vick
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/3/2012 9:42 PM, Phil Forrest wrote:
> > If I were to have won a sizeable chunk of that lottery and had a
> > hankering for another digital camera, I would have taken an M4-P,
> > along with an M9 and this hypothetical chip, to a genius team of
> > engineers and said "Make this M4-P into a digital Plus-X/Tri-X
> > shooter. Two settings: Plus-X and Tri-X. No screen. Put the
> > selector switch under the bottom plate." Then I would have pushed a
> > suitcase full of money towards them.
> >
> > Phil Forrest
> >
> >
> 
> 
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