M9 Titanium so there you have it!

[sprokitt]

e22k = nearly US$28,600. I'm betting that doesn't include the holster either.
At a 500 pc run that $14.3MM in revenues for a product most of the people who buy it will seldom, if ever use. Not a bad business if you can get it.

I think its a cool looking camera, but I don't think its breaking much new ground. Stylish -sure. Groundbreaking - not so much.

Maybe we mortals could start a petition to ask if they could spend maybe $25k of that revenue for a decent firmware update to the M8 for which we would gladly pay for anyway. Sorry...I know that horse is long dead.

 

[davidtth]

M10 spy photos released at Photokina...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5010096347_9f423985d2_z.jpg

very similar design to an old Fuji F601 designed by Porsche Design

 

[antiquark]

My first assumption was that this was just a joke...

It turns out that I was wrong. .

Haha, me too, my first thought was "funny photoshop!"

When it gradually dawned on me that it was the real thing, I actually felt pity for Leica! Because they were once a great company which made nice cameras, now they're down to making this!

It's like they couldn't find anyone competent to design it, so they got their summer student to do it. From the looks of the camera, I assume the summer student is some 18 y.o. kid who likes The Matrix, Anime movies, and writes Transformer fanfics.

All that being said, titanium is so 1990's! If they really wanted to be cutting edge, they would have made it out of graphite or carbon composites.

(Maybe it seems worse than it really is, coming on the heels of the spectacular Fuji X100...)

 

[Gary Sandhu]

I like it, after looking at some gallery photos; I think it looks and feels better in person. And it has a mineral crystal LCD cover and a hard wearing unique finish.
The electronic framelines are notable.
I

 

[ywenz]

This camera is a POS by all definitions of a POS.

 

[robklurfield]

by POS, I don't think he means "point of sale"....😉

This camera is a POS by all definitions of a POS.

 

[Alpacaman]

If nothing else, the does show that Leica is willing to throw away a lot of the traditional elements of the RF mechanism. Mebbe we can expect the LED thingo in the M10? Or perhaps and LCD (has anyone else done that yet? :angel: )

 

[Keith]

I think it's definitely technlogy destined for the M10 ... strange to try it out on the market in a camera that will probably get very little use.

I wonder what there thinking was there?

Actually ... looking at the M9t they obviously weren't really thinking on this occasion! 😀

 

[amateriat]

I would love to see a good digital body that would use the Leica glass. Maybe an optical system for the split image on the cam of the lens. A much better review screen, which should have been implemented would be much appreciated, but shelling out another 7 or 8 thousand to get what should have been, would not be.

I'd like to think that would've been the Hexar RF-D, which apparently did exist in prototype form. I cringe to think how many light-years ahead we might've been in the dRF world if Konica (yeah, Konica-Minolta if you insist) had kept-on-keepin'-on in the photo biz. But that's mere Monday-morning-quarterbacking on my part.

I still say: bring on the X100!.


- Barrett

 

[amateriat]

If nothing else, the does show that Leica is willing to throw away a lot of the traditional elements of the RF mechanism. Mebbe we can expect the LED thingo in the M10? Or perhaps and LCD (has anyone else done that yet? :angel: )

Yes. Contax did it, even in my lil' Tvs. Shows you how behind the 8-ball Solms has been...


- Barrett

 

[naruto]

this is a cruel joke played by Leica on all it's supporters. Now, the DSLR guys will just have to show us a pic of this camera to shut us up... *sigh*
*memory erase*

I could see someone using that holster grip and using this as a battering device. repeated strokes to the designer might help cure him. btw, I think it was designed VW designer Walter de Silva (ref Steve Huff site - http://goo.gl/reDx).

 

[nikon_sam]

Do they work and are they reliable or does that not matter since no one will be using them...???

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

I don't know if it's more funny or sad. THIS is what they spend their time on? It's OFFENSIVE. Pathetic. It's a bad, bad joke. Leica treats its customer base like an ATM.

The hand strap comes in two sizes! Lens shade looks like it belongs on the end of an electric drill. Or inside a blender. A holster! Thank you, ever so much! Fargin iceholes.

The douche who actually sports one of these in public should get noogies.

 

[retow]

Rumors are the M9T won't have a sensor, since they will all be vacuum sealed by Leica and sold to collectors😀. Imagine the margins for L:bang::bang::bang:

 

[JayGannon]

I dont know why people are getting in ahuff about this, Leica has a History going back decades when they were making 'the old gooduns' of making once off limited editions of stupid extravagance, why is this any different?

 

[Michael Markey]

I dont know why people are getting in ahuff about this, Leica has a History going back decades when they were making 'the old gooduns' of making once off limited editions of stupid extravagance, why is this any different?

I guess because times and sensibilities have changed and they seem to have failed to notice which in itself doesn`t bode well.

Michael

 

[Lss]

I don't like that weird leather-loop thing. Give me a 95% discount and I'll try to live with it.

 

[gliderbee]

Ugly, waaaay too expensive and you have to use it with a holster, because it won't come with strap lugs? Did Hermes buy Leica back?

Of course it has to be used with a holster: that will hide more or less how ugly it is 😀. As I understand, it's a limited editon (500), probably for the same reason.

I guess reactions on the M5 must have been the same, and I like that one, so maybe in 30-40 years, somebody, somewhere, while drunk, will like the M9 Titanium 😀 (and I hope I will not have to eat those words sooner or later 😛).

 

[JayGannon]

I guess because times and sensibilities have changed and they seem to have failed to notice which in itself doesn`t bode well.

Michael

Not really, there were recessions before. They still produced gold plated M3, M4, M6, they produced a gold plated Barnack in times of severe poverty.

Leica has always been a company that caters to a higher end market, people seem to have forgot that all of the M series were epensive cameras when new, yes their quaity control has gone down, yes they are not as responsive as they could be, but its not terribily out of line with their general history.

I'm sure photographers who loved their M4's we're writing to each other aghast at a gold plated M4 that was going to forever live in its box and never shoot a roll. Same for the Barnac, M3, M6 etc etc.

Leica has a history of special editions, and people who pay 22k for a camera are not particularly touched by current situations to be honest, yes they have lost money, but not enough to effect their lifestyle. So I would say Leica has perfectly placed itself to raise 14 million in additions capital through the sale of 500 cameras. Makes good business sense to me.

 

[sanmich]

Yep. Works. And much cheaper. Also allows you to look at the lens scales ...

Full frame, too 🙂

Night fishing? 😀