[rob_x2004]

Here is hoping they come up with something more sensible, from the swimming pools on the top of the thing they recess the controls in, to the exposed electrical contacts in the bottom, and from the vent in the front to channel water into the case which is supposed to be a preview slide to the LCD on the back that behaves like a water filled snow mobile so you can see the high tide line, from the ventilation on the outside to let dust into the film chamber to the webbing and flanging construction inside that makes it a fragile delicate but oversized beast and channels water into the viewfinder so you have to shoot blind for three days on end. And you reackon the DLux2 has a crappy veiwfinder.

Hopefully the R10 will have a nice shutter release, with a detent that matches the exposure lock, and is angled so you dont have to wrack your grip, ergonomics that are, a high level viewfinder that actually is, strap lugs that dont have to go between fingers, a multiple exposure that does not get shifted into position because it is right under the joint of your shutter release finger and gets shifted when you turn the camera from landscape to portrait an exposure meter you dont actually have to take your eye away from the frame to actually read a program that will allow the camera to function when the stupid ISO gold contacts in the film chamber get dirty dust seals and........

Has anyone got this far because I can go on?

Hopefully some older heads at Leica will prevail and they will actually remember the R mount bayonet so we dont have to use an adaptor for the R lenses.

Bucket of .... , it sells MPs for them.

It fightens small children.

There was this German bloke on the riverboat and I had to explain I didnt hate all Germans and .. that no I wasnt carrying a medium format camera into the middle of no where.