M9 Titanium so there you have it!

[kmallick]

Priced at 22K Euros, I wonder how many will be used to take actual street photographs. We have to wait and see how the new innovation of framelines lit with LEDs fair.

 

[Wcarpenter]

It's damn sexy, but I sincerely hope this isn't Leica's only contribution to Photokina... Reasonably or not, I am hoping for something more mainstream.

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

A different camera altogether? MUST BE A JOKE: apart from the quirky body, at least they seem to have changed the top right corner, does it have a film counter like the M8(2)? and....A STRANGE RED DOT TOOK THE PLACE OF THE BRIGHT LINE WINDOW, so it has changed to a a ....a..... Zorki..???. they were always built like a tank.

UPDATE...

............just read that it seems to have electronic bright lines.....

 

[Pherdinand]

hehe.
Any more comments that new leica's are not for collectors only?

 

[user237428934]

Fits nicely in a display cabinet.

 

[dogberryjr]

I thought the days of wretched excess were gone.

 

[Wcarpenter]

You would think think the latest economic meltdown would at least make a company think twice about asking $22k euros for a remodeled camera.

 

[wilonstott]

It doesn't have a frame-line illumiation window. Why?

Different rangefinder mechanism?


edit--oh, LEDs--got it. So, no flare?

 

[maggieo]

Ugly, waaaay too expensive and you have to use it with a holster, because it won't come with strap lugs? Did Hermes buy Leica back?

 

[Wcarpenter]

I can't think of a more awkward way to carry a camera with the size and weight of the Leica. Does one really have to use the holster? Those seem impractical even for blackberries.

 

[Viktor Sebastian]

Wow. They redefined ugly.

 

[RichC]

This is so not funny ... Local photographic meeting tomorrow - guess I'm going to be for a bit of stick being a Leica M8 owner. And I can't blame them...

:bang:

 

[RichC]

I can't think of a more awkward way to carry a camera

Do you honestly think anyone will actually unpack it let alone *use* it!!! :bang:

 

[Honus]

Cool, the lens shade doubles as a drill bit.

 

[Archlich]

Photos of the rebranded Pany LX5 and FZ100 are showing up as well.

Talks about "ground-breaking innovations in camera design"...yes...

 

[vincentbenoit]

Leica should be ashamed of themselves.
This is a disgrace.

 

[Viktor Sebastian]

Leica should be ashamed of themselves.
This is a disgrace.

I absolutely agree with you. My only hope is that the profit margin for this monstrosity is so high that it will fund R&D for a better future. But I am not holding my breath.

 

[amateriat]

(Sound of one person clapping...very slowly.)

Let's see: titanium-clad? finger-grip strap on the side?

That sounds almost like...well, this:

'Course, this ain't diigital (oh, for shame!), but it's got plenty of everything else, and you know the rest of the song.

After looking at Leica's latest ATAQNA, all I can say is: bring on the X100! (Which is looking better by the minute.)


- Barrett

 

[Florian1234]

So my thoughts alternate between "yawn" and "choke"

But this again fits into their philosophy stated two years ago in the big Kaufmann interview to introduce the new tech-stuff in the highest class first.

Apart from this, it is quite lame, right. Wouldn't wonder if the next big step is one of this design in white.

 

[starless]

Leica should be ashamed of themselves.
This is a disgrace.

it all went downhill after the M6/MP ...