"Mass Production" M60 style M coming on March 10th?

[noisycheese]

No useless ten minute video mode. HUZZAH!!!
And there are strap lugs after all: https://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M-D

 

[MikeL]

To paraphrase Reuben.

M-D: None of the advantages of digital.

No, thanks. I'll keep my M8 and M9.

Sometimes I forget how much better our pictures are with all the advantages of digital. Whew!

 

[JPSuisse]

Don't all new Leicas come with a free, recent version of Lightroom?

What is the problem with using a free, stand-alone version of LR 6?

Ah! This is assuming that we all go and throw out perfectly good computers for no reason at all!
I happen to have 2 MacPros both running 10.6.8 and still using programs like the first version Adobe CS from 2003. I am stuck at Lightroom 4.
No chance I will upgrade for another 5 years. Good thing all my 6 bit coded lenses are perfectly useable on a film camera.

 

[jaapv]

Note: I first posted this in the wrong thread.



[bash]Basically, this is not an optimized product. If it were, the body would be thinner. So, it really is a case of paying more for less.[/bash]

This does not mean by the way that I think the idea here is bad. I'm all for it and for the choice. The fact is I think they are trying to delay the launch of a completely M film-like digital camera (same dimensions, etc.) as long as possible.

Somehow, that really will be the holy-grail for some of us. So, in another 3 years, Leica maybe will have a new digital M for me to buy. Unfortunately, by then it won't be compatible with Lightroom 4, so I'll just keep using the M8 and scanning. So goes the digital life cycle nowadays.

[counterbash] That assumes the LCD protrudes inside the body. It does not. The extra thickness of digital M bodies arises from the sensor array/motherboard. You do not gain space by removing the LCD (except cleaning up the LCD/button bulge on the back)[/counterbash]

 

[jazzwave]

In 2018, Leica will release new camera: Leica M-D with lcd screen added as new feature.


Leica look lost orientation for their product roadmap

I confused with new Leica (digital) name: M (240, 262, M-P, Monochrome)

 

[Lss]

In 2018, Leica will release new camera: Leica M-D with lcd screen added as new feature.

It could be a welcome addition, provided the current controls stay in place. For example, an M8 style top plate screen with more functionality and different spec could be nice.

An "M-D with LCD screen", of course, already exists. It's the original M (Typ 262).

 

[jsrockit]

[bash]Basically, this is not an optimized product. If it were, the body would be thinner. So, it really is a case of paying more for less.[/bash]

I'm pretty sure the space may have been used for dampening to make the shutter a lot quieter... the camera is rumored to be very quiet.

 

[mcfingon]

The back of an M-D looks Zen to me. It is as uncluttered as a Zen garden at a temple.

 

[willie_901]

[counterbash] That assumes the LCD protrudes inside the body. It does not. The extra thickness of digital M bodies arises from the sensor array/motherboard. You do not gain space by removing the LCD (except cleaning up the LCD/button bulge on the back)[/counterbash]

This post should be pinned.

People seem to have forgotten the 27.80 mm flange-focal distance for the M lens mount is the primary determinant of the digital Ms' thickness.

Before the M8 some people speculated a digital M was not viable (would not be accepted) because the body would be too thick.

 

[user237428934]

Before the M8 some people speculated a digital M was not viable (would not be accepted) because the body would be too thick.

Whenever I have a film-M in my hands nowadays I always think it might slip through my fingers because it's so thin. I don't want the thin M back.

 

[sazerac]

I'll be saving my money for the monochrom version of the M-D.

 

[Ken Ford]

It's in the VF. What is cool is you can download the manual from the Leica site.

The M-D has a big advantage over the M60 in that it still has the ability to add exposure compensation in AE mode. The M60 cannot as it does not have that thumb wheel.

I just read through the M-D manual. Am I correct in thinking the only thing the thumbwheel is used for is EC?

 

[a.noctilux]

I just read through the M-D manual. Am I correct in thinking the only thing the thumbwheel is used for is EC?

The second use is to key in the time/date after holding the Fn more than 12s 😛.

Arnaud

 

[Ken Ford]

The second use is to key in the time/date after holding the Fn more than 12s 😛.

Arnaud

They might be overloading that input... lol.

 

[jepp]

I bought he MD and I am very happy that Leica answer the need of some of rheir customers ( not all). Jumping between M7 and M240 was sometime too much different process.
This MD will "emulate" the way I am using my M7 with the conveniance of the digital in term of time saved to process.
An other good point of the MD is that photograph start to think about what our menu is use for ( mainly JPG), what is photography, what is my flow, what is exposure....like if you buy a MA.
Thanks Leica to put that strange MD on the market.

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