Mic Drop Moment: M10-D with thumb lever

[DavidKKHansen]

People seem incapable of just softly saying “hunh” to themselves and going on with the rest of their day.

To this camera I say: hunh.

(softly spoken, of course 😉 )

 

[Moto Mark]

I don’t see what the big deal is about not having a screen in the back of the camera. I have the LCD screen turned off on my M240 so I can shoot and not think about the images until later.

Fake wind lever notwithstanding it’s a nice camera but I’ll stick with what I have for the immediate future.

 

[mod2001]

I don’t see what the big deal is about not having a screen in the back of the camera.

Helpful sometimes if you're in street photography, had it several times that people were a little bit p.... off but relaxed when they saw I shoot film :angel:

Anyhow, the no screen solution is probably better suited to build smaller compact cameras like the GRIII for example, EFV & Flash in, display off. Would be nice. I never used the display (except initial settings) on my digicams.

Juergen

 

[Keith]

To me this is similar to whacking a Starsky and Hutch style racing stripe on a Merc or BMW. lol 😀

 

[c.poulton]

Leica has since the 'Ur-Leica' followed the form-follows-function philosophy of the Bauhaus. Sadly, with this incarnation of it's M10-D, they have gone away from this philosophy with this 'fake' wind-on lever, whatever they say about it being thumb rest.

Sorry, Leica, I don't buy this...

 

[tifat]

I guess I should be embarrassed to admit that I like it. I use an M4 and and X100T. On the Fuji, I use an accessory thumb rest. If the wind lever had never existed and Leica introduced this as a retractable thumb rest, it would be brilliant.

 

[Bobfrance]

To me this is similar to whacking a Starsky and Hutch style racing stripe on a Merc or BMW. lol 😀

😂
..........

 

[ptpdprinter]

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

We already have the removable bottom. How about adding a flip-up back so you can put the SD card where the shutter curtains used to be? Truth be told, I'm still holding out for moving the ISO dial to the back, and adding a rewind crank. It would work like in the film camera models; it just wouldn't do anything. But you could pretend it did for the real film experience. And everyone around you could marvel that you were still using film. Then you could go to a cafe, and take a few photos of your camera and cafe au lait. Beret optional. Magnifique!

 

[willie_901]

Using the FOTOS app for immediate download did PIXII just get pwned?

No. Many brands offer immediate image transfer. But those brands don't have mechanical rangefinders.

 

[splitimageview]

Sorry, Leica, I don't buy this...

They aren't worried, there are more than enough who *will* buy it

😀

 

[ptpdprinter]

No. Many brands offer immediate image transfer. But those brands don't have mechanical rangefinders.

Or fake film advance levers.

 

[ptpdprinter]

Perhaps Leica will listen to all of the noise and produce a model without the idiocy for people who don't want it.

The could realize their error in judgment and cease production of the ones with the wind lever, which would then skyrocket in value. It would be a win-win.

 

[Godfrey]

I don’t see what the big deal is about not having a screen in the back of the camera. I have the LCD screen turned off on my M240 so I can shoot and not think about the images until later.

Fake wind lever notwithstanding it’s a nice camera but I’ll stick with what I have for the immediate future.

On the small Leica M body, removing the LCD and all the attendant buttons leaves a lot more room for my fingers to grip the camera without hitting a control inadvertently. On my CL, I've become very enamored of the "turn off all controls" toggle that was introduced in the firmware 2.0 release because I'm forever hitting something otherwise and having to reset my configuration.

 

[brbo]

If the wind lever had never existed and Leica introduced this as a retractable thumb rest, it would be brilliant.

Agree.

Anyway, Leica can/will most certainly offer a service to remove the lever. It will cost $1000+, but since "less is more" that is a small cost for "real photographers"...

 

[Guth]

To me this is similar to whacking a Starsky and Hutch style racing stripe on a Merc or BMW. lol 😀

That's pretty funny. I'd actually equate it more to Merc or BMW taking one of their cars with an automatic transmission, installing a fake manual gearshift and featuring it as a handrest.

 

[jawarden]

That's pretty funny. I'd actually equate it more to Merc or BMW taking one of their cars with an automatic transmission, installing a fake manual gearshift and featuring it as a handrest.

Oh that's good. 🙂

 

[Godfrey]

That's pretty funny. I'd actually equate it more to Merc or BMW taking one of their cars with an automatic transmission, installing a fake manual gearshift and featuring it as a handrest.

right on the mark.

 

[Huss]

That's pretty funny. I'd actually equate it more to Merc or BMW taking one of their cars with an automatic transmission, installing a fake manual gearshift and featuring it as a handrest.

and then putting out a press release saying it brings u back to the roots of driving.

 

[Fraser]

and then putting out a press release saying it brings u back to the roots of driving.

Now that is funny😀😀😀

 

[santino]

Ironically the title of the thread got wrong... it's not a cocking lever 🙂