Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I'd like to see what the design team can do to a Nikon D4.
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
A face only an M5 mother could love.
daveleo
what?
Hopefully it will sell for much more than the total development & manufacturing costs that Leica threw into it. Otherwise it would have made more sense for Leica just to donate that amount of cash to the charity and keep their M-production line running without interruption.
Murchu
Well-known
Hopefully put it on a diet!
thegman
Veteran
The 'one of a kind' Leica in my eyes is pretty grim looking, but I like the Braun one.
Roger has invented the perfect word for it, Egonomics.
Roger has invented the perfect word for it, Egonomics.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Leica seems to have endless resources for producing cameras that divide opinion. Roger has nailed it with the term egonomics as thegman pointed out.
Surely the money would have been better spent offering early morning baloon flights to the socially disadvantaged or something equally meaningless.
Surely the money would have been better spent offering early morning baloon flights to the socially disadvantaged or something equally meaningless.
f16sunshine
Moderator
Chris101
summicronia
Beep, "Siri, compose a shot."
"Ok, I've composed a photograph. Would you like me to expose it?"
"Ok, I've composed a photograph. Would you like me to expose it?"
gnuyork
Well-known
That is hideous.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
The only redeeming factor in this whole exercise!
gavinlg
Veteran
I love Jonny Ive but I really don't like that camera. Its overly simple and looks like a bar of soap.
finguanzo
Well-known
I would not wash myself with that..
Pablito
coco frío
Why? I can't imagine that he would. And I use the masculine pronoun on purpose.
FrozenInTime
Well-known
He missed a trick - not copying the Werra's lens hood/lens cover
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
umcelinho
Marcelo
cool, it might hit shops on 2015, hopefully, judging from their efficiency on delivering actual production models around the globe.
f16sunshine
Moderator
I suppose we can all sneeze all we want about the looks (which I think might be growing on me 
).
Hell…. I would shoot the lights out with that thing.
Big Fat Cmos and a RF focused Apo Summicron 50mm.
Cover it in tape and used chewing gum if you must!
).Hell…. I would shoot the lights out with that thing.
Big Fat Cmos and a RF focused Apo Summicron 50mm.
Cover it in tape and used chewing gum if you must!
David_Manning
Well-known
Actually, the look is something I thought a modernized M might look like...smoothed out, but same basic silhouette.
The only problem I see, from a shooter's perspective, is the inability to use the controls with gloves on or in the dark, somewhat limiting it's actual "professional usability." It'll work as a dilettante camera, but it'd be tough to be fast with it unless the light isn't changing and you shoot everything hyperfocally.
The only problem I see, from a shooter's perspective, is the inability to use the controls with gloves on or in the dark, somewhat limiting it's actual "professional usability." It'll work as a dilettante camera, but it'd be tough to be fast with it unless the light isn't changing and you shoot everything hyperfocally.
Major Tom
Established
Inverse snobbery is still snobbery.
icebear
Veteran
I guess we don't need a 2nd thread about this ugly piece :
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=137092
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=137092