M10 upgrade

M10 upgrade

  • Yes I am planning to upgrade

    Votes: 25 20.7%

  • Nope, not worth it for me

    Votes: 96 79.3%
  • Total voters
    121
Meh i'd keep the M9 personally. The idea of a leica M with an evf accessory slot and live view kind of makes me feel sad. The m9 may be viewed as the 'classic' digital M in years to come!
 
gavinlg said:
Meh i'd keep the M9 personally. The idea of a leica M with an evf accessory slot and live view kind of makes me feel sad. The m9 may be viewed as the 'classic' digital M in years to come!
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Yea and in a way the leica monochrom may just be that. It basically has all the performance one could ever need from a camera - In black and white anyway.
 
I don´t believe in that m10...not even the x2 does video!

But of course i didn´t believe on the monochrom either...😀

if such acamera was to be released i would´nt buy it...my next camera will be the monochrom...with the higher iso capability i can let go all my fast glasses in favor of my recenlty acquired apoqualia...but that´s another tale...hehe

I do beleive that leica will release a higgher Mp camera....but to me the best challenge on an m10 would be the size...i´d expect it to be a thinner camera as the film m´s....

cheers!
 
denizg7 said:
other wise leica will stay as an niche product nothing too innovative but for people who buy it because of it's past history and brass plates. Of course this is talking body wise, I can see many people using leica lenses when the x pro 2 comes out with a full frame sensor
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1 youre delusional if you think Fuji will dump their current lenses to make a full frame camera. they have a roadmap you know, they're married to aps-c for a long time

2 people buy Leica for the same reason they buy ferraris and vintage montblancs. it's got nothing to do with practicality, but with the subtle essence of the product. most people are too bullheaded to appreciate that level of subtlety, and even some people who get it in some places dont in others (e.g. all wine tastes like watery grape juice to me)

people push this "modernization" crap without understanding which parts of it are improvements and which parts are just different for the sake of being different. a ball point pen with usb storage and a laser pointer is a million miles more modern than any of my pens but it's still trashcan to write with.

Leica lives only because they occupy a space that has no competition in 35mm. And Canon would be making just as big a mistake trying to chase Leica's market as Leica would be chasing Canon's.
 
swoop said:
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The M9 works great but if the M10 has all the little features I crave like ISO 6400, larger/faster buffer, live view, upgraded LCD, film M size body, I can see myself getting one eventually but it's going to be at least 18 months until I can afford one and that's factoring in having to sell my M9.
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A faster buffer is something that would be really nice, I have lost a couple of shots because the camera was writing to the card. I never shoot on "c" but a quick series of single shots. I changed to raw only, instead of raw and jpg fine in the beginning. So it's a bit better. But that single feature is not worth an upgrade for sure.

I don't care about live view or a better LCD, I don't chimp at all. And I also don't care about the M9 being a tiny bit larger than film M's. The quality of the files stunnes me every time when I open them in LR4.1 compared to my old 5x7 prints I used to get, this is waaaay better. And I don't care if theoretically a 25 ISO film could give an even better resolution on a tripod "w. hold your breath and cable release" than the current sensor of the M9.

For streetphotography the M9 is "enough already" (see same title essay on LULA....):
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/enough-already.shtml
 
redisburning said:
1 youre delusional if you think Fuji will dump their current lenses to make a full frame camera. they have a roadmap you know, they're married to aps-c for a long time

2 people buy Leica for the same reason they buy ferraris and vintage montblancs. it's got nothing to do with practicality, but with the subtle essence of the product. most people are too bullheaded to appreciate that level of subtlety, and even some people who get it in some places dont in others (e.g. all wine tastes like watery grape juice to me)

people push this "modernization" crap without understanding which parts of it are improvements and which parts are just different for the sake of being different. a ball point pen with usb storage and a laser pointer is a million miles more modern than any of my pens but it's still trashcan to write with.

Leica lives only because they occupy a space that has no competition in 35mm. And Canon would be making just as big a mistake trying to chase Leica's market as Leica would be chasing Canon's.
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you obviously were not around when the m3 was announced and released. Fuji will increase their sensor size when the new x series comes out. Pretty sure Cosina Voigtlander still produces 35mm film cameras, oh and they are rangefinders
 
As a person who has never had any interest in shooting video with a DSLR, I still remember when Vincent Laforet released the video "Reverie" in Oct. 2009. It was the first the first 1080p video widely released that was shot with the Canon 5D MKII.
http://vimeo.com/7151244

If Leica does release a new digital M with video function, I can only imagine what that video would look like if shot with a Nocti and other Leica Glass. Not to mention, as hard as the Noctilux is to find these days, it may become near impossible.

I think I'm in. Just sayin'.
 
CMOS and live view I can see them doing... Video I think would be a bad idea. Better put the engineering resources into still image quality. I don't think Leica would sell many more cameras because of video.
 
WPalank said:
If Leica does release a new digital M with video function, I can only imagine what that video would look like if shot with a Nocti
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I too can only imagine video with full-frame and the DOF of a 50mm @ f/0.95 and manual focus. Not a particularly pretty image I'm sad to say.
 
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