Manual shutter lever/Leica M digital

[Mark_studio66foto]

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I love my Leica M9 camera, but when I go back and forth with my M6 there is a loss. At first I could't place what that loss was but now I know. It's the connection, the aesthetic of advancing the film with my thumb for the next shot.

 

With my M9 I just push, push, push the shutter like all my other Canons and digitals. With my M6 every shot is a calculated moment.

 

I'm hoping to put a bug in Leica's ear that more than one person I've spoken with, who use the M series camera for their work, would like a camera like this:

 

Digital M or M9 with a manual lever to cock the shutter. I know it will still need the full battery for the sensor and image transfer, but how nice would this be?!

 

Drop out the motor for advancing the shutter and give me a lever!!

 

Who's in? lets get Leica to make one

Cheers!

Mark

[bocaburger]

With the M8 and M9 the shutter recock is almost as loud and jolting as an old M-series motor winder. Which is ridiculous because all it does is cock the shutter, there is no film transport, obviously. And any entry-level DSLR doesn't have that noise and jolt. But the M240 solves all that, so at this point I would consider a manual shutter cocking lever pointless. I think if the M60/MA whatever they call it does go into production, Leica should just go all-out for backward nostalgia and tick all the boxes every nostalgia afficionado would salivate over.

Edited November 1, 2014 by bocaburger

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[lct]

Digital M or M9 with a manual lever to cock the shutter. I know it will still need the full battery for the sensor and image transfer, but how nice would this be?

Like this (Epson R-D1):

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[jaapv]

Or even better the DMR which provides the choice between a lever or automatic recock. But the RD1 and DMR are converted film camera's.

[Mark_studio66foto]

Yes! Those examples are perfect. Think how much more battery life we would have too! Hell, even remove the monitor as an option? Haha!

[lct]

The reversible display of the R-D1 would be perfect for me.

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And just imagine if the rotation of cocking the shutter could also generate power to charge the battery, a digital camera that didn't rely on a separate charger!

 

What I miss isn't about nostalgia or retro looks, it is the rhythm of pressing the shutter and winding on, the natural pause gives enough time to refine the framing, re-boot the minds eye, and not jump the gun.

 

Steve

[jaapv]

It would need quite a few turns on a bulky generator to be effective, I fear...

What about solar leatherette?

[250swb]

What about solar leatherette?

 

You wouldn't sell many above the Arctic Circle, to people who frequent the night, or those that live in Mordor.

 

But where would the human race be if we always had 'glass half full thoughts', even the glass wouldn't have been invented would it?

 

Steve