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rover said:Bottom line, what takes the picture, the photographer or the camera. Now I am no highly skilled artist, don't get me wrong, but I like my tool. You may like a different one, that is great. That doesn't make either of us right or wrong, it just makes us different.
Has Leica made changes? Well, very slowly, but yes, Ala the M7. Would a faster shutter speed or flash sync be better, I guess so, but slower films work too, and who uses a flash? Different strokes for different folks.
What Leica needs most is a fully featured sub $1000 DSLR to use with kick a$$ lenses ala Canon, Nikon and Pentax to survive, not a change in their wonder niche masterpiece that is the M series.
I'm more interested in a working M9 at a $2500 price point.
I think you've hit upon something we've all ignored up to this point: if you compared the M-bodies' film-loading system to SLRs of the pre-fast/auto-load era. For pro SLRs, that would run up into the late 1980s (yes, Canon had their QL system in place before the F-1 was released, but this was restricted to just one, "amateur"-level SLR body, the FT series, as well as their fixed-lens RFs). Leica's system was not at much of a disadvantage by comparison. Compared to contemporary film-based SLRs – at least those that remain in production – of course, the M appears hopelessly "outgunned." But one generally doesn't photograph with a Leica (or any roughly-similar RF) the same way, either.ferider said:Like Ralph: wrt loading, the M6 is the easiest non-motorized camera I know, and I've been around the block
Not much.arbib said:I wander what would happen if Leica introduced a Leica M with Flash Sync of 1/250s, Hinged back, top shutter speed of 1/4000s.
I'm not bothered about flash sync as I never use flash, the loading is a non-issue, and as for higher shutter speeds, I just load slower film or fit a ND filter.
markinlondon said:I bought a Leica M in the first place because it was the best example of the kind of camera I like to use. I'm not bothered about flash sync as I never use flash, the loading is a non-issue, and as for higher shutter speeds, I just load slower film or fit a ND filter.I find the feature laden modern SLR adds nothing to the photographic process for me except a lot of confusing choices and viewfinder data that I don't need.