jaapv Posted September 3, 2009 Share #1 Posted September 3, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Or rather carbon fiber composite. It is the only reason I can think of for dropping the chrome finish, analog to the R9. And the Japanese site only mentions a brass base plate.Faster to construct and lighter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 3, 2009 Posted September 3, 2009 Hi jaapv, Take a look here I suppoe the top plate will be plastic. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
georg Posted September 3, 2009 Share #2 Posted September 3, 2009 The translation destroyed parts of the formating, when you read carefully you still see the top plate mentioned. Brass allows high-quality surfaces, is available as high strentgh alloy and very stiff. HSC-machining it from a solid block is the perfect for solution for tight tolerances and complex shapes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 3, 2009 Share #3 Posted September 3, 2009 On the M9? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted September 3, 2009 Well, yes. Otherwise what has happened to the chrome plating?? But it seems my Japanese skills are lacking too;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share #5 Posted September 3, 2009 :DBut I see I'm wrong - it is made of brown paper.. Willkommen im LeicaShop - Startseite de Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpattinson Posted September 3, 2009 Share #6 Posted September 3, 2009 I can't imagine they will give up on chrome. Personally I always buy black, but I do see quite a few chrome M8's around, and it is a classic finish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted September 3, 2009 Share #7 Posted September 3, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) :DBut I see I'm wrong - it is made of brown paper.. Willkommen im LeicaShop - Startseite de Jaap, that is the beginner's origami version. Regards Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted September 3, 2009 Share #8 Posted September 3, 2009 Because powder coating pollutes less than chrome plating? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted September 3, 2009 Share #9 Posted September 3, 2009 :DBut I see I'm wrong - it is made of brown paper.. Willkommen im LeicaShop - Startseite de With chrome or gold lace, thought the Saudi edition is rumored to have 18K gold chain wrapping. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 4, 2009 Share #10 Posted September 4, 2009 I doubt there'll be anything other than a metal top plate. But somewhere in the speculations, a post claimed that the M9 would be 1 cm taller than the M8. Leica shows M8 as 80 mm in height. According to The Leica M5: Leitz's big ugly failure, or not... - photo.net, the M5 was 84 mm tall. If these numbers are correct, the M9 will be taller than the M5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 4, 2009 Share #11 Posted September 4, 2009 More on the top plate: The photo seems to show a kind of step at the VF end. That is, it appears that the body length extends beyond the finder window, but not all the way to the top of the top plate. The M5 had about 1 cm extra length beyond the rangefinder window as well, used in that case for the battery and some circuitry of the metering system. (M5 body length 150 mm, compared to 138 mm for earlier Ms, 139 mm for M8.) (data sources as above) I'm looking forward to seeing what the Gnomes have wrought! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooky Posted September 4, 2009 Share #12 Posted September 4, 2009 Excellent.........the M5 is my favorite M camera, a great camera that ran into the M loyalists of the day that couldn't see past their collective rangefinders. If Leica had soldiered on with the M5 and the M4's, the current M's may have been a completely different animal today - with metal top and bottom plates too!!! More than likely, the plates will be metal on the M9. If Leica ever dares to come up with a 'modern style' M body I wouldn't be surprised to see the latest and greatest high-test-poly- fibered-super-duper-fibered-synthetics for some of the body parts.....but we ain't there yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 4, 2009 Share #13 Posted September 4, 2009 M5 is my favorite camera as well. Most innovative, doing things that "couldn't be done," just as the M8 did more than three decades later. (Why are you and I the only ones who recognize that?) But the rumor of increased size seems to be in error--it's the same size as M8: Compact and durable body Lifetime that is a favorite of the Leica products are not uncommon. Leica M9 is the same is true also. Despite the large sensor, and Leica M8.2 Leica M8 is the same equivalent compactness. 139 x 37 x 80 mm as a tool for professional photography is the most compact exterior size. Full metal chassis is made of high strength magnesium alloy, and the top cover [and] Base plate are carved from a big chunk of brass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwelland Posted September 4, 2009 Share #14 Posted September 4, 2009 I think that anything less than a metal M9 would be suicide. It would certainly put me off the camera as part of the reason I enjoy my M cameras is precisely because they're made of metal (innards excepted) and not yet another PolyCarbon me too camera. I've got my cache of Nikons for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 4, 2009 Share #15 Posted September 4, 2009 Graham--The Japanese leak apparently said that both top and bottom plates will be brass, but that formulation got damaged in the automated translation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share #16 Posted September 4, 2009 Could be - my Japanese is not too hot Still I would vastly prefer bright chrome.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted September 4, 2009 Share #17 Posted September 4, 2009 Chrome may come later... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share #18 Posted September 4, 2009 I'm not buying later:p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squarenegs Posted September 5, 2009 Share #19 Posted September 5, 2009 Chrome is the new black. The masses think a black camera is a 'pro' camera while the chrome camera is grandpa's camera. I have a black and a chrome M8 the chrome version gets less attention on the street, just like my chrome Spotmatic, as compared to any of my black kit of whatever brand. The '55 Buick Roadmaster and the chrome Leica 'M' have a lot in common..... really! God, but I'm dizzy reading all the baseless speculation about an M9 We're like a strippers' convention discussing the possibility of no cost breast implants paid for by the national public health care/medicare plan. I can hear the air hissing out of that 9/9/9 balloon from here. We're gonna end up with some badge engineered Olysonic thingy passing for a digital CL. Love your film M and your M8 I say. Best regards to all on the Forum! Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted September 5, 2009 Share #20 Posted September 5, 2009 Squarenegs - you had to bring that up, didn't you. Now we'll have Glen Beck or Bill O'Reilly or someone linking to this site to "prove" that U.S. health care reform would pay for sex worker's cosmetic surgery...."just like the Canadians!" It is possible that steel-gray is for the Asian market only - the "anthracite" MP was a Japan-only product, I believe. Photo Profile on Leica MP Grey Anthracite Collectible Kit - MIR Image Library The only vaguely official mention of that color instead of chrome was on a Leica JAPAN web site. Or maybe Leica got enough requests/queries on the color in other markets that they decided to give it a whirl worldwide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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