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New Leica M 240 follow-up in 2017 : The speculations.


Paulus

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The boilerplate in the image says so: http://leicarumors.c...10-camera.aspx/ 

 

 

Thanks Philipp.

 

So, as I said in the M10 thread, it is perhaps more a successor to the M9 than to the current M, which very deliberately was not called the M10.

 

Perhaps falling in line with the many suggestions that there should be two variants to the M line, one nostalgic and one technologically advanced.

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Thanks Philipp.

 

So, as I said in the M10 thread, it is perhaps more a successor to the M9 than to the current M, which very deliberately was not called the M10.

 

Perhaps falling in line with the many suggestions that there should be two variants to the M line, one nostalgic and one technologically advanced.

I hope that is right, as what we can see of this "M10" is pretty uninspiring.
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There were only two wrong releases in Leica's history (excluding the point and shoot department): the R3 and the M5. The M8 has been burnt down a bit but is now being worshipped. The R8 and R9 were great camera's too, except that Leica invested too much in the wrong direction at that time, where they should have made efforts in digital

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No, that's not what it is. It's a way to enable two parallel M lines.

I start to believe that my source in october was right. He talked about a classic line, M-C or M10 ( I did not believe the latter..) saying it would be with a " Messsucher " . It would be introduced in November. The other source replied a few days later, that the introduction for big distributers etc. was posponed. That should be 22/23 November. A few days later Leica Rumours gets more rumours an now an " ugly" picture and one with a number on de bottem. I would say, it seems a little more likely, to see a new camera in Februari that Jono is already.  testing. It will be " classical " small on places where you can feel it, but all in all the same shape like the M6.

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Perhaps falling in line with the many suggestions that there should be two variants to the M line, one nostalgic and one technologically advanced.

 

I'd certainly support such a suggestion/decision if it led to a rangefinder body capable of taking an advanced EVF with the processing power to support it.

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Anyway, it is an interesting task for Leica to draw the vector in such a way that the two M-lines reach maximum consumers of both target-groups and that these consumers aren't paralyzed by not being able to choose. I don't think that the labelling of purists or traditionalists vs. techno-beaters is the most successfull business model.

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