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LEICA ANNOUNCEMENT: New Leica Products - LEICA M8 / M System


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Dear Leica friends,

 

We are pleased to announce that a range of interesting new products for the Leica M System will be introduced at photokina 2006. All of you participants of the Leica Users forum are the first the hear the official news after our salesforce.

 

First and foremost, by many end users the long awaited rangefinder camera LEICA M8.

 

NEW: LEICA M8

 

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The new LEICA M8 will be available from the end of November 2006 on at a price around 4´200 Euro. The camera is complimented by two high performance lenses which can be used for digital and analogue use, as well as, additional accessories.

Product information: m8_en.pdf

Technical data: tecdat_m8_en.pdf

 

The camera is complimented by two high performance lenses which can be used for digital and analogue use, as well as, additional accessories.

 

NEW: Compact wide angle lens LEICA ELMARIT-M 1:2,8/28mm ASPH.

 

 

The new LEICA ELMARIT-M 28mm is standard lens for the M8 and will be available at the Leica dealers from the End of October 2006 at a price of around 1´350 Euro.

Technical data: tecdat_elmarit28_en.pdf

 

NEW: Super wide angle with three focal lengths LEICA TRI-ELMAR-M 1:4/16-18-21mm ASPH.

 

 

 

 

NEW: Universal viewfinder M for focal lengths from 16 to 28mm

 

 

The new Tri-Elmar-M 16-18-21mm is the ticket for very wide angle photography in Leica quality for the M system. Lens and viewfinder will be available from the end of December 2006 on for a set price of 3´500 Euro.

Technical data LEICA TRI-ELMAR-M 1:4/16-18-21mm ASPH.: tecdat_trielmar_en.pdf

Technical data Universal viewfinder M: tecdat_universalfinder_m_en.pdf

 

We hope that you will like the new products and invite you to the photokina fair in Cologne Germany to experience these products first-hand.

 

I also hope you will understand that I won´t have the time to visit the forum regularly to answer all answers that this mail may cause!

 

Best regards from Solms!

 

Stefan Daniel

Head of Product Management, Leica Camera

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Holy f****** s***, looks like the new 28mm is truly a Leica pancake lens... at least not since the 3rd version of the 28mm M have we gotten something which is truly compact.

 

Well, looks like Voigtlander out the window now... Leica pancake series anybody else up to flipping the flapjacks on Canadaleitz shebang without yawners? :eek::D:eek:

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I'd say that this is a remarkable achievement.

 

To be so close in design to the traditional M, yet be at the cutting edge of today's digital technology... the designers in Solms must be very pleased with themselves :)

 

They should be congratulated.

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Seems that a lot of people on this forum were getting outright nasty regarding the photos I published 2 weeks ago and claiming they were so fake.

 

Are these fake as well ? :)

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I'm very happy and impressed.

 

Dimensions in millimeters:

 

M8: 139 x 80 x 37

 

M7: 138 x 79 x 37

 

Weight:

 

M8: 545 grams (without battery)

 

M7: 610

 

The one possible disappointment for me is the exposure compensation doesn't seem to be as convenient as the DMR's, but it is still a little unclear to me how it works. But, manual is always an option.

 

This does not look like a company going down the drain. I think the M8 may attract a lot of new customers. Can the R 10 be on the way?

 

Best,

 

Mitchell

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I'm very happy and impressed.

 

 

The one possible disappointment for me is the exposure compensation doesn't seem to be as convenient as the DMR's, but it is still a little unclear to me how it works. But, manual is always an option.

Best,

 

Mitchell

 

 

Yes this is my concern also I see it as hit SET button scroll to EV than dial in adjustment and you already lost me here, this is not going to cut it. This NEEDS to be on the fly. Hit SET and dial it in and that is it. One single button just to activate this. My only one issue.

 

It's not too late this CAN be done in the Firmware.

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Read number 3 carefully . No effect to the raw with lens coding

 

Leica, obviously keen to solve this problem, took a three pronged approach with the M8:

 

1) Don't use a full frame sensor - at this time it would be cost prohibitive and too complex to produce a sensor which can cover the entire 36x24 mm frame and still work with rangefinder lenses. For this reason the M8's sensor measures 27x18 mm (or 1.33x crop).

 

2) Use offset microlenses - instead of placing all microlenses directly over the photodiode they are gradually offset as you get closer to the edge of the frame (see below).

 

3) Know which lens is being used and apply some software correction - all new M series lenses now carry a six-bit code which allows the M8 to identify which lens is used and (optionally) apply a 'final stage' software based vignetting correction (for RAW images the lens used is simply recorded, no change is made).

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