Dear Leica, have your engineers considered the idea of printing camera bodies out of carbon fiber, light and strong as steel, instead of sculpting them out of metal?
You could make the bodies lighter, thinner and therefore add more components, cheaper, and the outside moulding could be customized to any style you wanted. I don't know about heat dissipation, waterproofing, etc, but thats up to your research.
I imagine S and SL and even M cameras could be a lot lighter and easier to use with this new material. You could keep the same pretty form and even add metal tops and bottoms for decoration.
Patrick Peritore, Recife, Brazil
PS if you use my idea, please send a nice CL to my address.😀