M10-D, farewell.......

[M11 for me]

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vor 4 Stunden schrieb LDUNN1:

turn the lever into the main on/off switch

That is a nice idea and a bad one at the same time: I like to use my phone for geo-tagging all the images that I take. For this its necessary that the camera stays "on". If you turn it "off" after each shot by pushing in your lever then there is no connection to the phone anymore and upon turning the camera "on" again it will take quite a while to be reconnected. Consequently you will have a lot of wrong tags on your images.

I am actually used not to turn my camera off. Often I even forget to do so after a shooting. The next day the battery is still doing fine . . .

Your proposal was to put that lever onto all the M models as an on/off switch but this is then a bit problematic for users like me 😃

[IkarusJohn]

Coming from Nikons, I really missed not having the on/off switch on the film advance lever.  I think this was a big miss by Leica.  That would leave the WiFi switch, which could be assigned elsewhere.  I would also have liked to lose the front button.  Small issues.

@LDUNN1, at one stage, I also wished for double arrows in the viewfinder, but was soon happy with the single arrow - what helped was realising that the direction was the same for the aperture ring and the shutter dial.  The dot&arrow together gives an indication of over and under exposure.  It is simple, and effective.

[gotium]

22 hours ago, IkarusJohn said:

Coming from Nikons, I really missed not having the on/off switch on the film advance lever.  I think this was a big miss by Leica.  That would leave the WiFi switch, which could be assigned elsewhere.  I would also have liked to lose the front button.  Small issues.

@LDUNN1, at one stage, I also wished for double arrows in the viewfinder, but was soon happy with the single arrow - what helped was realising that the direction was the same for the aperture ring and the shutter dial.  The dot&arrow together gives an indication of over and under exposure.  It is simple, and effective.

The on-off switch was an issue for me with the M10-D. It was too easy to put it in wifi by accident, and the auto-off function DID NOT WORK when wifi was on. So the battery would drain on me constantly. The wifi didn't work anyway. Plus you can't turn off live-view if the EVF is attached, also a big battery drain. 

Edited May 30, 2024 by gotium

[fenykepesz]

vor 55 Minuten schrieb gotium:

The on-off switch was an issue for me with the M10-D. It was too easy to put it in wifi by accident, and the auto-off function DID NOT WORK when wifi was on. So the battery would drain on me constantly. The wifi didn't work anyway. Plus you can't turn off live-view if the EVF is attached, also a big battery drain. 

same here - that silly on-off power switch wheel on my m10d simply rotated too easily, for the first one or two years at least, with the most annoying consequences on battery drain you just described.  now, today that same wheel is too hard to turn i feel.  a power switch built into the shutter release button tower is truly the better and more intuitive solution.  most cameras produced over the last few decades feature such, am i not correct ?

when i drive a manual transmission car, i also don't want to miss that stick shift at its usual place in the car middle, right ?  though not to forget the Renaults and Peugeots with their column gear shifters, sigh...

Edited May 30, 2024 by fenykepesz