They don't do what I want either. I want them to take a Sony A7 sensor and viewfinder, put a better, smoother, quieter shutter in it, and set it up with the Leica R lens mount. Do they listen? NO! (Actually, the Sony is more flexible because I can fit M-mount, Nikon F, Leica R, and just about any other decent lens mount to it with an appropriate adapter. I just wish it was made and finished with the build quality of the Leicaflex SL.. It's a darn good digital version of that camera anyway. :-)
I'd love a digital M as trim as my M4-2 as well, but it cannot happen, at least not with today's technology. Look at the Sony A7 and the sensor plane registration mark. That shows that with today's technology, you need about 12mm from the sensor plane to the back of the body to fit the sensor assembly and electronics that drive it. For film, you need about 3mm. So there's a 9-10mm minimum thickness gain for a Leica M since the lens mount has to go in front of the sensor plane with a 28mm registration. And if you measure it, that's about the difference in thickness between an M4-2 or M3 and an M8-M9-M(240). The M9 and MM are delightfully spartan with simple menus and simple controls. The MM has no red dot, no script on top, nothing. Its just there. Weatherproofing would be nice. The shutter and IO speed of the M(240) would be nice. If you want to do video, get an Olympus E-M1 … the five-axis IBIS is very useful for doing hand-held movie work. (It's too bad they didn't put in a 24fps capture speed, though; you have to transcode it after capture.) So many nice cameras out there these days. Sony, Pentax, Leica, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic … Oh yeah, those Nikon and Canon things too. G On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > Thanks. I think the M3 is possibly the perfect minimalist camera, and Leica > have been trying to go to the dogs ever since, without ever quite getting > there. What I would really, really like in a digital Leica is something with > the exact dimensions of the M3 - the digital Ms are too fat - and > weatherproofing, to protect the electronics. It should also be black and not > have a red dot or any branding on the front, just a discreet engraving on > the top plate. > > Apart from the 24x36 sensor, the M9 is too like the M8 for me. I want a > 24x36 sensor, but if I buy another M it has to have at least 2 major points > of difference (of the type I want) from the M8, so it would be the MM or the > typ 240. > > I like the idea of the typ 240 because it is 24x36, weatherproofed, and for > the video. I'd quite like to make a court metrage - a short movie - to help > me in analysing films, but I'm not sure that that is something I would use a > lot. I'm not expecting to discover that I've been a J-L Godard manqué after > all these years - on verra. But I don't like the thumbrest or the wheel > thing on the back - they spoil the aesthetics for me. I don't understand why > Leica just don't do what I want. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
