jmahto Posted November 5, 2015 Share #21 Posted November 5, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can't see it ... How about a Carbon Fibre body! (it's in caps because they're Big Important words). How cool would that be, particularly if it wasn't painted! Will it balance with metal lenses then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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105012 Posted November 5, 2015 Share #22 Posted November 5, 2015 My wish list: thinner, lighter, faster, minimal and with a QuantumFilm sensor or something else that solves the blown pixel problem of digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmahto Posted November 5, 2015 Share #23 Posted November 5, 2015 My wish list: thinner, lighter, faster, minimal and with a QuantumFilm sensor or something else that solves the blown pixel problem of digital. Interesting... It seems QuantumFilm stuff is more for smartphone than a premier imaging device. Just read few blogs and I could be way off. Fascinating... as Spock would have said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulus Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share #24 Posted November 5, 2015 I don't think it will be smaller. Leica invested so much in the inovation of the M9-> M240 body. They must have thought it over well and want to keep it for years to come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 5, 2015 Share #25 Posted November 5, 2015 Since as consumers we deserve no less, I wish that the new Leica have a: - Better... - Even better... - Larger... - Smaller... - Improved... - Even more... - Even less... The Kravitz version should be: - More expensive - Less paint The camera will obviously disappoint everyone, so the waiting period will be only 2 years. In the meantime, I will be happy with my Safari. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted November 5, 2015 Share #26 Posted November 5, 2015 With a quantum film sensor and a means to "close" the global shutter as soon as one pixel gets to X% saturation we can eliminate the ISO control and have an X control. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkonkkrete Posted November 5, 2015 Share #27 Posted November 5, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yes, Exodies, I'm pretty sure that is the long-term future of digital sensor technology. Eventually there might not even be a shutter closure: after hitting the shutter open button, you just continuously read out photon absorption rates for each pixel, so there would be no need for the 'X' control. 'Exposure' would basically be a tone-mapping decision at the post-processing stage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sully Posted November 5, 2015 Share #28 Posted November 5, 2015 Please,.....4K, HDMI, 4-2-2, and 10 bit out....So, we can use it in combo with the SL. Both cameras could send signal to and external monitor or record to a Shogun or Q7. Ciao, Sully Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted November 5, 2015 Share #29 Posted November 5, 2015 Please also make a new camera the same size as the MP film camera with the absolute minimum set of digital features. I think there is a good case for a 'more' M camera and a 'less' M camera - but I don't know if Leica can divide M resources to make both happen. In some ways the SL would be a better 'more' platform and the M the 'less' platform. However realistically a tweaked M-P / M.240 seems most likely. Agree higher ISO is a priority Please don't make it as 'less' as the M9. The M240 is as 'less' as a camera worthy of the title 'digital camera' can be.That is except well.... please remove the video feature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter H Posted November 5, 2015 Share #30 Posted November 5, 2015 As far as I can tell, the video feature doesn't compromise the camera's stills performance in any way whatsoever. So calls for its removal seem to be more to do with ideology than anything concerning photographic performance. If we want to get into a new M designed on ideological grounds, fine, but maybe we should then start from scratch, no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 5, 2015 Share #31 Posted November 5, 2015 Rather not. I use it as a travel camera, and with long lenses it is a marvellous supplement for my wife's video between taking stills. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieg Posted November 5, 2015 Share #32 Posted November 5, 2015 Shutter speeds in viewfinder in manual mode (retaining arrows/circle to confirm exposure) Move-able zoom point for focusing in live view Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted November 5, 2015 Share #33 Posted November 5, 2015 As far as I can tell, the video feature doesn't compromise the camera's stills performance in any way whatsoever. So calls for its removal seem to be more to do with ideology than anything concerning photographic performance. If we want to get into a new M designed on ideological grounds, fine, but maybe we should then start from scratch, no? Absolutely agree, load it with latest electronic technology and keep good old ORF, it exists in 2015 for a reason not for a nostalgia sake. Leica ideology and dogma is behind every technically unfeasible request like size and weight of next M. Having digital body thinner than film M is not going to happen, I know that (Engineer by training). As for weight I think it is perfect, any lighter and it would need adding ballast weights. Smaller battery? Definitely not, any one wanting smaller and lighter is welcome to Sony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 6, 2015 Share #34 Posted November 6, 2015 Oh, 1/8000 sec shutter speed. I bump up against this often with the Summilux lenses. But, by no means screw up the quiet, low vibration shutter or the silky smooth shutter release to achieve this. Rick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiafish Posted November 6, 2015 Share #35 Posted November 6, 2015 Please don't make it so attractive that I feel compelled to replace my M240. Please don't make it so attractive that I feel compelled to replace my M-E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted November 6, 2015 Share #36 Posted November 6, 2015 Interesting... It seems QuantumFilm stuff is more for smartphone than a premier imaging device. Just read few blogs and I could be way off. These days, all the innovations in sensor technology premiere in smartphone camera modules, i.e. tiny sensor sizes. Eventually the new technologies trickle down (or up if you prefer) to affect larger sensors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirekti Posted November 6, 2015 Share #37 Posted November 6, 2015 QuantumFilm looks very promising, exactly what I look for in the new sensor, higher ISO, more dynamic range and a global shutter i.e. parallel read out. "Only" two things are left, when would Leica adopt it (if ever), and how it would cut off IR light. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Cambern Posted November 6, 2015 Share #38 Posted November 6, 2015 While many talk about higher ISO capability I would be very happy with the native 50 ISO of the sensor in the SL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 6, 2015 Share #39 Posted November 6, 2015 50 is a pull value - the native ISO value is 100. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Cambern Posted November 6, 2015 Share #40 Posted November 6, 2015 50 is a pull value - the native ISO value is 100. Thanks Jaap. I thought I recalled reading that 50 was actually native but I would be happy with 100. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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