jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
You're a collector; I would not buy a digital M as a collectable either. As a photographer I find the M9 a perfect transposition of a film M into digital. And I happen to prefer digital photography over film.
Harry Lime
Practitioner
I highly doubt Leica will use a CCD again, since they have hinted at 'live view' in the M10. So, it will be a CMOS sensor.
BobYIL
Well-known
Not a collector but someone who had been using Leica since 1963. It was hard for me to sell my old companions.. I am an engineer by profession and a company owner however I am keen to receive what I pay for...
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
6 pictured camera boxes WITH 5 M3s, 3 M2s, an M4, an M6 TTL and two Barnacks yet not a collector? How do you carry all those bodies with you? That must be quite a heavy load.
Phil Forrest
Phil Forrest
Lawrence A.
Established
I'm always surprised by the passion for and against that I read about Leica, here and on another, m4/3 forum I belong to. Just the name "Leica" seems to get the juices flowing.
Alas, the only Leica I own is an old IIIb, though it works well and I shoot with it all the time. While the world awaits the Leica M10, I'm praying that Voigtlander Cosina will decide to put out a full frame digital M rangefinder, something I might have a chance at being able to afford.
Alas, the only Leica I own is an old IIIb, though it works well and I shoot with it all the time. While the world awaits the Leica M10, I'm praying that Voigtlander Cosina will decide to put out a full frame digital M rangefinder, something I might have a chance at being able to afford.
Turtle
Veteran
I thought Leica already admitted to it being CMOS, or at least said CMOs was the future....
Personally, I am watching the M10 for an indication of the viability of the entire digital M system for me. I was close to buying a M9, but decided to wait because I wanted better high ISO, where quite a bit of my work is shot. In the meantime, Leica pricing has called into question the viability of entire brand as far as I am concerned.
If the M10 is priced in line with the new 50 APO Summicron, then it will likely mean I never buy into digital M because I need to know that future bodies are not going to keep going up and up and up. I don't want to think this way, but the 50 APO summicron seems to be priced cynically and I have to wonder if it was to test the market tolerance in advance of setting M10 pricing. Sadly for me, it appears that many will gladly pay far in excess of what I can afford. When the M8 was produced it was about the same price as a top of the range pro SLR. In fact it was less. The M9-P is considerably more than a Nikon D4, 2.6x the price of the D800 and the M10 may well disappear into orbit.
Some people say Leica is only one great Fuji away from serious trouble, but I disagree because the brand is stronger than in a long time. Just look at people all hot and steamy over the 50 APO Cron. I do, however, believe that Leica is one great Fuji (and one absurdly priced M10) away from losing all but a fraction of its remaining working photographers, who buy into systems and look at far more than the price of a single unit at one point in time. This has no relevance to Leica balance sheets, but it is sad nonetheless. Leica's strategic partnership with Magnum - perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all agencies - would appear to be an effort to cling onto the link between the brand and world class photography, which is growing ever more tenuous with time.
Personally, I am watching the M10 for an indication of the viability of the entire digital M system for me. I was close to buying a M9, but decided to wait because I wanted better high ISO, where quite a bit of my work is shot. In the meantime, Leica pricing has called into question the viability of entire brand as far as I am concerned.
If the M10 is priced in line with the new 50 APO Summicron, then it will likely mean I never buy into digital M because I need to know that future bodies are not going to keep going up and up and up. I don't want to think this way, but the 50 APO summicron seems to be priced cynically and I have to wonder if it was to test the market tolerance in advance of setting M10 pricing. Sadly for me, it appears that many will gladly pay far in excess of what I can afford. When the M8 was produced it was about the same price as a top of the range pro SLR. In fact it was less. The M9-P is considerably more than a Nikon D4, 2.6x the price of the D800 and the M10 may well disappear into orbit.
Some people say Leica is only one great Fuji away from serious trouble, but I disagree because the brand is stronger than in a long time. Just look at people all hot and steamy over the 50 APO Cron. I do, however, believe that Leica is one great Fuji (and one absurdly priced M10) away from losing all but a fraction of its remaining working photographers, who buy into systems and look at far more than the price of a single unit at one point in time. This has no relevance to Leica balance sheets, but it is sad nonetheless. Leica's strategic partnership with Magnum - perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all agencies - would appear to be an effort to cling onto the link between the brand and world class photography, which is growing ever more tenuous with time.