Mic Drop Moment: M10-D with thumb lever

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Steve Huff review and video

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2018/10/24/the-leica-m10-d-review-less-is-more-again/

https://youtu.be/pWVonIhTYsQ

 

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Steve Huff review and video

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2018/10/24/the-leica-m10-d-review-less-is-more-again/

https://youtu.be/pWVonIhTYsQ

No need to read the review or watch the video. This is all you need to know:

"It’s also light and small, and has an amazing thumb grip in the very retro and vintage film cocking lever. Once you use this grip you will not want to be without it. Leica, please put this in all future versions of the M ; )"

The next shot is a canned photo of someone setting up a CL with a phone using FOTOS.

 

[Dante_Stella]

No reframing required. The conversation is already underway. Leica must have nothing but contempt for their customers to introduce something like this. If someone actually tries to wind it, thinks it's jammed, and breaks off the lever, will it take nine months to repair? It's a Leica.

I don't know if contempt is the right word, but Graham Greene's Dr. Fischer of Geneva comes to mind. But I'm some kind of M240/246 user, so take it for what it's worth (or not worth).

Dante

 

[Godfrey]

Sadly, they know their market. Mostly bling seekers and a half a dozen photographers. Is anyone here actually doing to buy the M10-D? I know, you are too embarrassed to admit it.

I'd buy one if it didn't have the stupid faux film wind lever. It has the one thing that I would enjoy good use out of: the ability to use the Visoflex 020, which would enable my ability to use the Leica R lenses, bellows, etc for macro and tabletop work.

I'm not in the market just at the moment. Perhaps Leica will listen to all of the noise and produce a model without the idiocy for people who don't want it.

G

 

[PRJ]

I generally like the idea of the camera with the lack of lcd. The wind comes out too far though. It should have been limited to what a regular film M is like when you use the lever to rest your thumb, just free of the body. Or they could have just put a nubbin there instead. Kinda weird to use the shape of a wind lever...

I think it fails on price though for what it is. I can just imagine the insufferable Leica Wonkers who will buy this camera and proclaim how pure they are. No one that buys this camera will say it stinks because they will look like a fool having paid what amounts to a premium for it.

The shilling for the camera from the youboobers is pretty bad too....

 

[jawarden]

That is one strange camera. I have no problem with a thumb grip/rest/whatever, but making it look like a film advance lever is a poor choice. Winding on film on an M3 for instance is a real pleasure because it feels and sounds good as the parts work together, and you have tactile feedback that the film is moving properly, and that the shutter is ready, and when you've exposed your last image the resistance in the lever tells you so. It's an authentic, high quality experience. I can't imagine this thumb rest feeling anything but vacant in comparison.

Maybe for next year's model the base plate could come off like on an M3 and people could pretend to struggle loading faux film while actually inserting a memory card. ;-)

 

[Emile de Leon]

This is a real Leica camera...for the real Leica man..hahaha....
But all kidding aside..no lcd..but you can still use the visoflex..and tilty it too..as well as your cell phone..
If I needed this m10d....which I don't..I would definitely buy it..as it comes real close to perfect..
The "film" wind..they should have used the one on the m4..as the m3 type if you have ever had it stick in your eye by accident..that really bites..
I've got a lot of Leica glass..would work well on this cam to be sure..

 

[bhop73]

Maybe for next year's model the base plate could come off like on an M3 and people could pretend to struggle loading faux film while actually inserting a memory card. ;-)

Don't all digital Ms already do that?

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Maybe for next year's model the base plate could come off like on an M3 and people could pretend to struggle loading faux film while actually inserting a memory card. ;-)

How about they put on a semi-functional "rewind" lever, where the original one is? Or for the early M2 crowd, perhaps a button; this will have to be flipped/depressed BEFORE removing the baseplate in order to protect the SD card. Even better, the rewind knob then has to be rotated at least 17 times before pulling the baseplate. If this step isn't taken, the camera will "fog" most of the images in the card and irreparably damage the data of all but a few.
I mean, if we're going to get a completely real, fake experience, don't hold back; we might as well go whole-hog.

Phil Forrest

 

[aizan]

“fake leica” by liao yibai

i think he may have been on to something.

 

[Fjäll]

I'd buy one if it didn't have the stupid faux film wind lever. It has the one thing that I would enjoy good use out of: the ability to use the Visoflex 020, which would enable my ability to use the Leica R lenses, bellows, etc for macro and tabletop work.

I'm not in the market just at the moment. Perhaps Leica will listen to all of the noise and produce a model without the idiocy for people who don't want it.

G

I'm sure it would be easy to just remove it.

 

[splitimageview]

Should be no more difficult to remove than it is to remove the wind lever on a film M.

And then everyone can add a Thumbs Up, right?😀

 

[jawarden]

Don't all digital Ms already do that?

Wow, right you are, and I had no idea. I use an M3 and haven't tried the digital ones. Seems like another odd design choice, but okay it's unique. 🙂

 

[Huss]

Any truth to the rumour that the film winder actually doubles as a bottle opener?

Now that would be cool. The first full frame digital camera with bottle opener. As we all know that capturing that decisive moment can be thirsty work.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Any truth to the rumour that the film winder actually doubles as a bottle opener?

Now that would be cool. The first full frame digital camera with bottle opener. As we all know that capturing that decisive moment can be thirsty work.

I doubt that the camera would have a bottle opener but seeing as I was a good sailor, I took a lesson from my USMC brethren and adapted and overcame the adversity of not having a bottle opener when needed; by using one of the lips of the lens flange. Works fine to pry open a bottle cap. Then again, pretty much anything does.
I would expect Leica to maybe have a corkscrew double as the trigger winder lever for a Leicavit.

Phil Forrest

 

[Guth]

For me, one word best describes the faux film advance lever on this camera: cheesy. I’ve said exactly the same thing about the fake “carburetors” (used to disguise the fuel injection throttle bodies) that Triumph now uses on their classic Bonneville series of street bikes. More recently Triumph also added water cooling to these motorcycles by attempting to hide the radiator between the twin downtubes of the frame. They also kept some pseudo air fins on the engine cylinders passing it off as functional cooling when it’s not really needed. They’ve been selling like crazy — just as much “lifestyle products” as they are motorcycles I suppose.

I guess that is just what a lot of people are looking for these days. Likewise I won’t be surprised if Leica ends up selling plenty of these. Yes, some might manage to remove the fake film advance lever and end up creating some stellar images with it. Regardless, I’ll still think of this as the cheesiest Leica of all. Unless heaven forbid Leica should come up with some way to top it. I sure hope not.

 

[Jamie123]

Maybe it's a bit OCD but doesn't it seem that it would be very frustrating to have your finger on a "lever" and never be able to pull it through?

 

[Michael Markey]

I’ll still think of this as the cheesiest Leica of all. Unless heaven forbid Leica should come up with some way to top it. I sure hope not.

I`m sure somebody is working on that at this very moment ...

 

[Keith]

I just discovered it's a thumb rest. The camera was never in my sights but I have to say I'm very disappointed! 🙁

 

[robert blu]

I'm not in the market for a new camera, budget sone't allow it and I'm satisfied with the M10 as it is.

I do not like the falso film wind lever. Apart of this I like the concept of this camera, without LCD but with the possibility to connect an EVF just in case of need.

robert

PS: about the false wind lever: I think Leica before deciding for this solution made appropriate marketing research...