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IWC Doppel

By IWC Doppel
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animefx

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I will buy the Leica M.

 

Love the new functions. Pleasantly surprised by the camera, I love everything about it, and the price is reasonable for Leica anyway. I will be selling my M8 and 5D2 with some lenses to help pay for it

 

Who will buy the M

Who likes the functions ( by function EVF, Liveview. R adapter, video, GPS, grip etc)

Who was pleased with announcement of he M

Who was dissapointed with announcement of the M

 

Thoughts ?

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JHAG

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Who will buy the M

Who likes the functions ( by function EVF, Liveview. R adapter, video, GPS, grip etc)

EVF, Live view

Who was pleased with announcement of he M

Who was dissapointed with announcement of the M

 

Thoughts ?

 

I will order it soon. It will replace my 2009 M8.

Functions : EVF, R adapter (at last carry just one body for M and R lenses), video (why not).

Maestro.

I was pleased

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Carduelis

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Although I feel the M is a worthy addition to the Leica range, I am more interested in the M-E, M9, M9P instead on the grounds of outlay and desired functionality of just simply taking photographs using a full frame sensor and the Leica lenses I have acquired. I know from personal experience that video is difficult and ideally requires a tripod and external microphone. An autofocus zoom lens with image stabilisation is also a great help which I currently have with my existing Panasonic (with Leica Dicomar lens) camcorder.

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bocaburger

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Who will buy the M

Who likes the functions ( by function EVF, Liveview. R adapter, video, GPS, grip etc)

Who was pleased with announcement of he M

Who was dissapointed with announcement of the M

 

Thoughts ?

 

I will not be buying the Mnothing as long as my M9 continues to function. With any luck that will be a long time, and with a whole lot of luck, Leica will actually live up to their pledge to keep supporting it for another 10 years.

 

Even if I did buy an Mnothing, I would never buy the rebadged Olympus EVF (or even an Olympus-badged one which will undoubtedly cost half as much) as I've used one and think it sucks like all EVFs to-date. I have zero desire to shoot video, and even if I did, I would want something with Image Stabilization and autofocus. GPS in a camera means nothing to me, as thankfully I'm still cognitively healthy enough to remember where I was when I took a shot. I have no R lenses any longer, but if I had any desire to haul those bulky SLR lenses around I would also be OK hauling around a much-less-expensive Canon 5D to mount them on, given that without auto-aperture coupling, the Mnothing is just as much of a kludge and non-solution.

 

But I was not at all disappointed in the Mnothing announcement. It is a camera I could embrace if push came to shove. The superfluous features are not intrusive, the add-ons are optional. And the price is such that I could afford to upgrade if need be.

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photomeme

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Who will buy the M

Who likes the functions ( by function EVF, Liveview. R adapter, video, GPS, grip etc)

Who was pleased with announcement of he M

Who was dissapointed with announcement of the M

 

Thoughts ?

 

I'm not interested in video, or live view and focus peaking while staring at the back or through an EVF. if they'd succeeded at a heads up display rendering focus peaks inside the rangefinder viewer, that would have been something.

 

i was most interested in a new sensor. but can't say whether i like it or not.

 

i'm disappointed it's a small upgrade in pixels. the monochrome will likely remain the resolution leader. (it may also remain the high iso and dynamic range champion of the Leica line).

 

nothing shown or available online at photokina gives any meaningful information about its raw output, dynamic range or character. i don't know whether it's covered by an antialiasing filter or not. i don't know the quality of base iso (i don't usually like CMOS output at base ISO) or of higher isos. i'm a bit concerned the iso max out at 6400, but that in itself isn't meaningful one way or the other. better noise control isn't inherently a feature of CMOS -- the opposite is true, it's natively noisier than CCD -- so it's important they have sophisticated on chip noise reduction, and we don't know whether they've succeeded in that without the involvement of the patent-rich major CMOS players. i'm a bit troubled that this is the first CMOS version by Leica and its partners. it might be smart to wait for their 2.0 product.

 

although the branding suggests there won't be one?

 

is this the 'M' because they'll finally offer to upgrade the sensor? that would have my interest. i see nothing in the specs to suggest a camera with this sensor that remain viable as the brand's leader in the rapidly evolving marketplace.

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TomB_tx

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No reason for me to buy - I'll keep using my M9 as long as it functions. I still use my R collection on film, and with other makers coming out with FF dSLR bodies with real optical finders in the $2K range I'll wait and see what develops along that line.

I appreciate that the M fulfills Leica's "R Solution" - but it is unappealing to me.

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JHAG

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the monochrome will likely remain the resolution leader. (it may also remain the high iso and dynamic range champion of the Leica line).

 

Well, in a perfect world, I would fall for both, Monochrome and M.

I guess this world will come to existence by feb 2013… :cool:

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LeicaMSeattle

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I will keep and shoot with what may be the last of the true M series rangefinder cameras in the M9-P.

 

Interesting with this new 'M', Leica has morphed the M system into a R system camera, with lens adapter and EVF this camera will essentially be what a contemporary R body should be which can then be instantly transformed back into a rangefinder M. I may buy into it once the camera has been out for a while.

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Peter H

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I will keep and shoot with what may be the last of the true M series rangefinder cameras in the M9-P.

 

 

Well, if you want to get all fundamentalist about it, you could say the M9 was the last true M camera in the sense you mean it.

 

You could say the M9P was just another cosmetic marketing ploy that worked rather well with people who would rather spend a pile of cash on a face-job than a useful piece of photographic equipment or a trip somewhere interesting.

 

However, I don't wish to get all fundamentalist about it, so I shan't say any of that.

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wattsy

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The M (not keen on the new naming convention:mad:) looks like a decent product and sensible for a company trying to increase market share. I have no serious interest in video (when I want to shoot a video I use my iphone and am quite happy with that:)) nor do I care about increased ISO. As such, I have no need or desire to buy it (which is a good thing because, design wise, the camera looks like a dog's dinner).

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