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36 minutes ago, nicci78 said:

So if you are happy with current TL lenses and Sigma DC DN one. And that you like to adapt M and R lenses with 1.5x crop. CL line up is still relevant. 
If you expect more ? Get an SL and go full frame or buy Fujifilm X line to stick to APS-C 

+1 or hope for a compact SL but it would be an FF body anyway. People are not prepared to pay high-end prices for crop lenses imho, let alone if they are only marginally superior to Sigma's or other affordable competitors. 

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I think that your claim that APSC for Leica is dead, is about as fact free as you can get. I’ve heard politicians offer more substance. The L- Mount Alliance proves there’s more life in APSC format. Fuji shows there’s more to APSC than your “Woe is me!” statement. 

Show us the amount of €uros that have been removed from Leica’s APSC development budget. Give us hard facts that prove they have cancelled the CL2.

if you have the facts let’s see them, otherwise you just sound like someone with a down on Leica. In which case why hang around here being miserable?

 

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I did not say that APS-C is dead for Leica. It is just at the minimum service stage. Just like S 30x45 line up is. 
Do you consider S line dead ? I don’t think so. But Leica only provide the minimum with S3. But do not expect any new lens. 
We may get an S4 in 4-5 years. 

APS-C is entering the same phase. No further lens development. But CL2 is certainly into the pipeline. 

But no new lens = no more development. 
 

It is a kind of zombie stage. Be happy with what you get (current lenses) and upgrade to newer body, if still interested to stay on board  

 

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On 7/28/2020 at 11:30 AM, nicci78 said:

Video is imperative. I use it everyday. One reason why I sold M10 for the CL. 
By the way, adding video is free. 
Another reason to keep video : the video market is growing fast, when the still market is shrinking/sinking even faster. 
 

That’s why every camera manufacturers are turning to video. Even the still only one, such as Nikon or Fujifilm. Olympus missed the memo and let Panasonic take all m4/3 video customers for himself. 
Without strong video capabilities, Leica could be out of business in a few years. And they knew it, and make sure that SL2 and Q2 are as strong as possible in the video department. 
 

People want hybrid cameras instead of two separate devices. And camera manufacturers should be worried when most of the time, iPhones (not Android photo) can output better videos than what their big sensors cameras can. 

I use my iPhone for video. Leica for photography. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone and they do excellent video in recent generations of iPhone. 

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I would not expect CL line to disappear. 
To me a ff sensor with a crop lens to keep overall package  size in check makes a lot of sense. And FF bodys do seem to come down in size.

Think a small body that can handle a 24-90 l mount with full resolution but also with a smallish APS-C 24-70 2.8 ....

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20 hours ago, Pixeleater said:

I use my iPhone for video. Leica for photography. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone and they do excellent video in recent generations of iPhone. 

I  use my iPhone too, i dont want to see any video options on the CL 

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CL2 absolutely needs top notch video abilities! 
Haven’t you noticed that it is video shooters who are still buying dedicated cameras ?

That’s why everybody are courting them so hard.

Even, never done video in my life companies like Nikon or Fujifilm are joining the club of photo & video centric ones like Canon, Sony and Panasonic. 

If you failed the video part, you can go the way of Olympus. Or slowly dying like Ricoh/Pentax. 

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Videos from Q2 or CL are better than iPhone’s one. It is just more difficult to use. Due to thinner depth of field. AF is a challenge with DFD only cameras. Better use MF. 
CL lack of IBIS is the biggest problem. Better to use a tripod or a monopod. 

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13 hours ago, nicci78 said:

Videos from Q2 or CL are better than iPhone’s one. It is just more difficult to use. Due to thinner depth of field. AF is a challenge with DFD only cameras. Better use MF. 
CL lack of IBIS is the biggest problem. Better to use a tripod or a monopod. 

That might be true compared to an older generation iphone. IMO Apple’s video technology for their iphones is far more advanced than the Q2 or CL. There is a huge secondary economy that supports iphone with accessories that are heavy into videography.

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