Issues with Leica, the company

[Pioneer]

What? Me Worry?

Heck, Leica is easy. Pentax has really screwed the pooch with their camera names over the years. Starting with the bayonet mount we have the K Series, the M Series, the P series, back to the M series, then the *ist Series (?), back to the K Series, which is where we are now. Somewhere in the middle of all this is an LX all on its' own. Try doing a google search on all this. 🙂

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Leica could certainly have continued the succession of numbers after 9 no question but would have needed to come up with some kind of differentiation for the monochrome models.
Something like M9M and M10M comes to mind but is it such a big issue? Are Leica loosing any sales because of the change, i don't think so.

Maybe this one would be a good one for Raid to take to the CEO next time they have a conversation?

 

[gdi]

Future complaint on RFF:

"I bought an MP on eBay for $3k but the scamming seller sent me an M-P with a cracked sensor! How should I handle it??"

 

[gdi]

M-P = Mii?

Or, why not the "N"?

 

[Godfrey]

This is all so funny. Four pages of discussion about whether people like the name of a camera.

Meanwhile, my Leica M-P typ 240 only says "Leica" on the top plate, and my soon-to-be Leica M Monochrom typ 246 doesn't even say that. I'll just refer to them both as "the M."

Time to go take some pictures.

G

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Yes and no matter what the name is, they can take good pictures ��

 

[icebear]

I know what is in my bag and how to use it.
I don't care too much about anything else.
Just got to focus 😉

 

[kshapero]

Funny how some folks see this thread as a playful hrumph and others get all hot and bothered. Humans are a funny lot.

 

[photomoof]

And yet no one has mentioned the M3 was released in 1954, the M2 in 1958, and the crazy M1 from 1959, where is the M zero in all this logic?

 

[raid]

I do not look up many camera models if I am not going to buy any. I read up on the M8 and the M9. There is no confusion.

 

[shadowfox]

Funny how some folks see this thread as a playful hrumph and others get all hot and bothered. Humans are a funny lot.

I have to agree... reading some of the comments here reminded me why I avoided any discussions about digital leica m.

 

[Particular]

And yet no one has mentioned the M3 was released in 1954, the M2 in 1958, and the crazy M1 from 1959, where is the M zero in all this logic?

They were following the same logic they had deployed in the screw mount era, which was about as confusing as the current scheme.

 

[robert blu]

The name could have been a little simple with a numeric progression after the M9, M10, M10 mono, M11....

But it seems me not so important specially as a selling point. In the Leica web site under "Photography" the families S, M, X, T ....are well defined.

robert

 

[giellaleafapmu]

Funny how some folks see this thread as a playful hrumph and others get all hot and bothered. Humans are a funny lot.

It is funny how many actually get hot and bothered by ANY thread at all. For what I know I could be the only human posting here and all comments could come from a funny programme.

GLF

 

[jaapv]

A real human person? With that Forum name? Come on...😀😀😛

It is funny how many actually get hot and bothered by ANY thread at all. For what I know I could be the only human posting here and all comments could come from a funny programme.

GLF

 

[Jockos]

It may also be:
A million monkeys banging at typewriters
Encoded ISIS communications
Corrupted data
Leica employees blowing of steam
Aliens

 

[rfaspen]

It may also be:
A million monkeys banging at typewriters
Encoded ISIS communications
Corrupted data
Leica employees blowing of steam
Aliens

Leica employees for certain! They hate the new naming systems, and who wouldn't?

Aliens wouldn't even try to understand the Leica naming system. They tend to focus on planetary names anyway, so they won't get lost.

From what I've heard, ISIS doesn't believe in creativity, so they either don't care about the new naming system....or they strongly support it. (I fear its the latter)

Monkeys are great. Given the chance, they might come up with a better naming scheme.....let's give them a chance. Did I mention monkeys are great?

 

[V-12]

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I'm a writer and a photographer, as I said somewhere earlier this thread.

G

Ah, so you have no opinion, so why do we hear so much of it?

If you want to remain neutral well that's fine, but some people are concerned about Leica sales and all the dead end cul-de-sacs they are going up. Before long they will have run out of letters in the alphabet to designate failed attempts at gaining even semi-popular cameras within the Leica community let alone wider popular sales. Let's look at the exciting lens roadmap for the T for instance, or was that it? Hardly an encouragement to buy a new Leica 'wonder camera' when the wonder fades within a few weeks or months. But you are above that, so you need not reply, a journalist is devoid of opinion, a photographer simply observes, and all that pretentious bollocks.

V

 

[V-12]

For what I know I could be the only human posting here and all comments could come from a funny programme.

GLF

If you want to stick your nose in the air as an act of superiority be careful who is sitting just above you. It may be worth considering if you have anything at all that means anything to you, and then work out if you might be called 'funny' by anybody else if you advocate it?

V

 

[Godfrey]

Ah, so you have no opinion, so why do we hear so much of it?

If you want to remain neutral well that's fine, but some people are concerned about Leica sales and all the dead end cul-de-sacs they are going up. Before long they will have run out of letters in the alphabet to designate failed attempts at gaining even semi-popular cameras within the Leica community let alone wider popular sales. Let's look at the exciting lens roadmap for the T for instance, or was that it? Hardly an encouragement to buy a new Leica 'wonder camera' when the wonder fades within a few weeks or months. But you are above that, so you need not reply, a journalist is devoid of opinion, a photographer simply observes, and all that pretentious bollocks.

V

You've been escalated to my ignore list: you seem unable to manage a conversation without making ad hominem remarks whenever someone disagrees with your point of view.

G