The next step is an advance lever

[atournas]

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Soon after Leica announced M9, there were posts questioning the necessity of the LCD screen (and also of some in-camera software functions). The posts elicited skepticism, criticism, and--alas--occasional irony. But, apparently, Leica thought otherwise and first abandoned the color imaging, then recently the LCD screen and anything non-mechanical, at least on some models.

 

Perhaps the next step should be an amalgamation of all models into a kind of "digital M7 Monochrom", a Leica 60 equipped with an advance lever to activate the next shot. That would bring the traditional Leica photographer a full circle back to a nearly mechanical M camera for black & white photography with only the Tri-X replaced by the CCD. Why not? Leica listens!

 

Paul

[jaapv]

Yes!! And then replace the fixed sensor by a flexible one that can be rolled into a container to be processed. Lets make it so long that it can contain 36 files!!

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[atournas]

Yes!! And then replace the fixed sensor by a flexible one that can be rolled into a container to be processed. Lets make it so long that it can contain 36 files!!

 

Your imagination is wilder than mine and I like it! But sensors that are replaceable/upgradable are within coming technologies, in my opinion. Anyway, I think the Hasselblad V System+digital back combo works the way I mentioned in my first post.

 

Paul

Edited November 21, 2014 by atournas

[pico]

Yes!! And then replace the fixed sensor by a flexible one that can be rolled into a container to be processed. Lets make it so long that it can contain 36 files!!

 

And replace that terrible lever advance with a round knob to keep from tearing the sensor strip. Next, zurückspulen!

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Yes!! And then replace the fixed sensor by a flexible one that can be rolled into a container to be processed. Lets make it so long that it can contain 36 files!!

Molten sand can be shaped into sheets which could possibly be used instead of warped ribbons.

[pico]

Molten sand can be shaped into sheets which could possibly be used instead of warped ribbons.

 

Yes! Reduce the camera to the fundamentals.

 

[Edward Louis Marit]

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The Hasselblad V system plus digital back has a monster size Sony lithium battery without which it doesn't function.

[enboe]

If it were not for the rangefinder drifting out of alignment, I might have kept my Epson R-D1 from 2005. Having a manually-cocked shutter allowed for a very respectable number of photos out of a low, by today's standards, capacity battery.

 

An M60 + Strap Lugs + a manually-cocked, maybe even mechanical, shutter. This is an intriguing combination.

[dant]

Soon after Leica announced M9, there were posts questioning the necessity of the LCD screen (and also of some in-camera software functions). The posts elicited skepticism, criticism, and--alas--occasional irony. But, apparently, Leica thought otherwise and first abandoned the color imaging, then recently the LCD screen and anything non-mechanical, at least on some models.

 

Perhaps the next step should be an amalgamation of all models into a kind of "digital M7 Monochrom", a Leica 60 equipped with an advance lever to activate the next shot. That would bring the traditional Leica photographer a full circle back to a nearly mechanical M camera for black & white photography with only the Tri-X replaced by the CCD. Why not? Leica listens!

 

Paul

 

Yes, if $3000...maybe.