Leica Mini Image Leaked

[kbg32]

First picture and specifications

http://leicarumors.com/2013/05/28/f...Rumors+(LeicaRumors.com)&utm_content=FaceBook

 

[sleepyhead]

Oh well. No longer of interest to me…

 

[_goodtimez]

I love the "Made in Germany" listed in the specs 🙂
Wow is this really made there ?
I think I will love my screwmounts better.

 

[konicaman]

A stripped down X-E1?

 

[alienmeatsack]

I think it's a fake. Personally.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

An expensive d-lux 6?

 

[noimmunity]

It says it will have best-in-class full HD video and IQ.

Best-in-class status (that will only last a couple months before one of the other players releases something much better) at a 150-250% price premium?

I think that pretty much says what this camera is all about: status at a premium.

 

[Spanik]

I think that pretty much says what this camera is all about: status at a premium.

Isn't that what Leica has been for some time now?

 

[bonatto]

I think it's a fake. Personally.

With you. If they are going to be consistent across their product lines, for it to be an "M", standing for Messsucher, it would have to utilize a rangefinder focussing system. Should Leica not be planning an RF system, it could stand for "M" Mount. Where's the mount?

Could be a good mockup to drive traffic.

I hope it could be some form of a digital CL, but with fixed lens, maybe full frame, to go up straight against the X100 series, at a 2k+ price-range.

 

[Dani46]

lol, what a bad move by Leica.
3.4- ? really, not to mention all the other fails.

Fuji X-E1 kills this, and is way cheaper.

 

[Aristophanes]

It's worth and value will depend on the price...

...oh, wait.

It's Leica.

NM

 

[N.delaRua]

...I hope that is fake because it its almost Lunar status in terms of innovation. That would be a face slap with respect to all the possibilities available to them.

 

[YYV_146]

Huge disappointment if they actually released something like this. Is Leica so out of touch with its customers, or does it know the true moneymakers too well?

 

[alienmeatsack]

People online everywhere are enraged by this fake image and what it stands for it seems. I've never seen so many people get so upset over something that is not real or verified.

If it were real, Leica would have one heck of a bad seller on their hands.

 

[thegman]

I'm leaning towards fake too, not sure why, but it just does not seem right to me. I just don't see them doing a slow zoom really.

 

[Exdsc]

The image is real. The shadows in the dials and stuff cannot be faked.

 

[maitani]

could it be the kit lens, and the lens removable?

 

[sepiareverb]

It has a manual focus ring? Seems fake to me.

 

[stnolan]

It's absolutely a fake. Even Leica knows no one would buy a fixed lens camera at premium prices that is that slow. I am hearing it will be a changeable lens system that is AF. My dealer told me to start buying Contax G lenses several months ago. We'll see but they know what a bust the M-E and the X2 have been.....I say this as someone who owned an X2 and loved it.

 

[FrozenInTime]

It has a manual focus ring? Seems fake to me.

There is precedence.