Rumor Mill: Leica C-M

[mod2001]

i'd throw it harder and faster if it shot film.

I did it and bought a Contax T3 several years ago 😉


Jürgen

 

[nightfly]

Throw away:

https://www.ebay.com/p/Leica-CM-35mm-Point-Shoot-Film-Camera/52119999

i'd throw it harder and faster if it shot film.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I would think it'll be closer to a an over-priced, but brilliant mirrorless camera than crappy. BUT I'm not biased against mirrorless.

Me ethier, my M-E is mirrorless. And I think this Leica trying to catch up with what others have done and way better than Leica always late and not latest sensors game needs to be steered to completelly different direction.

Do optical VF, RF on KMZ, get Barnack sized bodies made elsewhere, stuff them with Panasonic internals. And those must be fife axis, dust removal MFT sensors. And collaborate with 7A to use thier lenses for MFT.
Sell it as Zorki, Seagull and Barnack.

So, I'm not against mirrorless but supporting it as more viable option to build modem, Barnack sized digital RF. Hybrid like X100 or X pro or just optical RF and touch screen reversable like on Pen.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Ko.Fe...a wonderful and entirely incomprehensible response.

 

[jsrockit]

Smaller and lighter! 😀

But DSLR shaped...

 

[jsrockit]

So, I'm not against mirrorless but supporting it as more viable option to build modem, Barnack sized digital RF. Hybrid like X100 or X pro or just optical RF and touch screen reversable like on Pen.

I understand now... I think they made the barrack with the CL. Though I get that you want an optical finder, the finders in Leica's mirrorless cameras are current and pretty nice. I agree though, I would like to have what you are describing.

 

[ptpdprinter]

I understand now... I think they made the barrack with the CL. Though I get that you want an optical finder, the finders in Leica's mirrorless cameras are current and pretty nice. I agree though, I would like to have what you are describing.

I think the Leica CL marketing gurus even said that Barnack would have chosen APS-C. So a new FF camera won't qualify as a modern Barnack. Unless they want to rewrite history again.

 

[Axel]

But DSLR shaped...

It depends. In hand and in use it feels more like using a rangefinder.
Size matters 😉
And no ugly mirroraction. Quiet, quick, handy...
Get me right - that shouldn´t be a Sony prologue. I think there are a few things
that Leica can do to create their own mirrorless fullframe as just they do it.

 

[rfaspen]

M-mount. Full frame. I will listen further.

I've learned to avoid speculating about rumored Leica products. A fair amount of the time, they're a little disappointing for me (for my personal wants/needs).

 

[DougFord]

An M optics centric device, including an M spec'd sensor with the autofocus motor for the lens located inside the camera body.
Reissue existing M glass optic formulas in a new container with an L mount. They would need to modify the design of the L mount on the CM to accommodate the mechanical linkage necessary to drive the autofocus. This mechanical interface would have nothing in common with existing M mount lenses.
The upshot? Lightning quick autofocusing M optics on a fully electronic M centric device.
An adapter for manual focusing existing m optics. Override of the internal focus motor when existing L mount lenses are attached.
Gimme a minute and I'll come up with something else that Leica will never produce. lol

 

[Godfrey]

If it's not what I want, I expect I'll have a CL soon. I want a CL body with a FF sensor, period. Don't care about AF, don't care about much other than the body. I want this body for specific uses, since I've now shipped my SL system off to be sold.

What they make ... Three more days and speculation will be at an end. 😀

G

 

[Emile de Leon]

All the anticipation...then...zzzz....it wasn't want we wanted after all...zzzz..

 

[ptpdprinter]

Looks like the CM was just a rumor. Instead, Leica introduced a rebranded Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS200 in gold at a 30% premium for the fashion accessory set.

 

[bayernfan]

Looks like the CM was just a rumor. Instead, Leica introduced a rebranded Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS200 in gold for the fashion accessory set.

i think something is in the pipeline, perhaps something along the lines of an interchangeable mount Q. enjoy the Zagato in the meantime!