Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] Leica ME?
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:34:35 -0400
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Lew - If that's what they did I'd sure be interested and I suspect a lot of 
others would be, too.  

Regards, 

Dick



On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Lew Schwartz wrote:

> No, it'd be an M9 with the new sensor, 18mp & less on board memory than the
> M10 (no video). Same viewfinder as the M6/7/9. It'll give Leica an excuse
> to continue to mfgr body & view/rangefinder parts and let us mechanical M
> owners sleep nights.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> If the ME doesn't have an EVF, then what? A sorta real Leica with nothing
>> more than a chimp screen would be just a fancier Panasonic, wouldn?t it?
>> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Taylor
>> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:56 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica ME?
>> 
>> 
>> The rumor seems to go against that possibility since it states the ME will
>> not have an EVF.  To take it seriously for a moment, I'm trying to think
>> how an ME might be different from the also rumored M10.
>> 
>> One big difference could be a CCD sensor vs. the CMOS one in the M10.
>> 
>> Another might be APS-C--with a sensor more capable than the M8--rather
>> than full-frame.
>> 
>> Another might be a simplified optical viewfinder/rangefinder.
>> 
>> Beyond that, I'm at a loss.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>> I'm guessing Leica "M" "E"lectronic, kinda like the "E" version of the M6
>>> or MP.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at 
>>> comcast.net
>>>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  An ME for the Me Generation?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Probably a mime of the "less expensive" RE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sonny
>>>> http://sonc.com/look/
>>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>>> 
>>>> USA
>>>> 
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>>> 
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> 
> 
> 
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