If an M camera with an EVF was released, would it replace your SL?

[tomasis7]

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https://photorumors.com/2024/05/18/new-panasonic-lumix-camera-announcement-next-week/

Leica version? 🤪🤔

[FlashGordonPhotography]

3 hours ago, tomasis7 said:

https://photorumors.com/2024/05/18/new-panasonic-lumix-camera-announcement-next-week/

Leica version? 🤪🤔

No EVF on this one. Basically, a vloggers camera like the Sony's. EVF camera with an M bayonet is Q4 this year.

Gordon

[tomasis7]

9 hours ago, FlashGordonPhotography said:

No EVF on this one. Basically, a vloggers camera like the Sony's. EVF camera with an M bayonet is Q4 this year.

Gordon

I like the shape of the body.

Slap a Visoflex 3 on it and call it for the day. 

M-bayonet? Would be very interesting! 

[adan]

On 5/3/2024 at 2:52 AM, adan said:

Of course - but that does not change the fact that any ICL camera CAN be turned into a fixed-lens camera, with minimal (if any) change required, from the lens mount back.

For all practical purposes, many Leica users effectively have a 50 or 35 "welded" to their Ms. if they never use anything else.

 

Yes it was not hard. In that time.

Leica did a lot of special orders even for individual customers back then. They built a microfilm printing device for my father, consisting of a modified Prado 150 slide projector,  special film trays and guides and a 45 degree mirror, and a Focomat base. 

BTW something added the words struck out above directly to my post. Without my permission. Those are NOT my words.

[jdlaing]

Yes they are.

[BernardC]

19 hours ago, tomasis7 said:

Leica version?

Possibly, given that Panasonic and Leica are working together on camera platforms. I wouldn't expect Leica's version to be a straight re-badge, but it should use the same sensor and processor in a different body. In a perfect world, this new body would take the same battery as the SL and Q.

[jdlaing]

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On what planet could an M with an EVF replace an SL? No autofocus. No zoom lenses, etc.

[kkcsm]

I agree.  I love my SL.  I love my M.  They’re different; I approach a subject differently with each camera.  In fact, I exit the house with a different mind set depending on which camera I have taken with me.  I can own two cameras, I don’t need these to be merged.