Hi everyone,
yesterday I was thinking about the fact that LEICA has a potential Best Seller not yet realized, which could potentially have a very strong impact on the market.
Everyone knows the legendary M series, which is surely fantastic but that also follows a specific philosophy (not the subject of this discussion) that can scare or not be interesting for all that photographers who are looking for autofucus and big Mega Pixel.
On the other hand it produces the fantastic Q line (of which I am a very happy owner) which has excellent performance in terms of autofocus, stabilization and Mega Pixel, but which is specifically design for photographers not looking for the interchangeability of the optics.
There is certainly the SL series, that anyhow sacrifices one of the most beautiful characteristic of Leica, namely the compactness of body and optics.
Wouldn't it be great to have a LEICA with body and characteristics of the Q, but with compact interchangeable M-style lenses? Price permitting, I would be the first to be interested.
What do you think is the potential difficulty of this approach? Probablement it would be necessary to motorize the optics of the M series, but given the experience with the summilux 28 1.7 of the Q I think that LEICA has all the skills to do it.
I'm curious to know your opinions.
Regards
Stefano