I recieved the pictures via email and leicarumors posted the images on his blog: http://leicarumors.com/2009/09/05/leica-m9-microsite.aspx/
More here:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=78976
The X1 will have an APS-C sized CMOS sensor!
And a M9 PDF is available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42208156@N04/
DO you still think this are Fakes? 🙂
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M9 Catalog shot in Cuba is so beautiful. I wish I get one, I mean catalogue.
With Samsung, Leica and Ricoh about to prove that you can in fact fit an APS-C sensor into a compact body, the *only* way the micro4/3rds format will survive is by dramatically lowering their prices to compete with consumer compacts. And that is unlikely to happen this soon into the launch of the micro4/3rds concept. The investors will resist reality.
Please know, I was totally supportive of the Olympus EP1. I wanted one. But I only wanted one when the alternative was a full size, bulky DSLR.
That isn’t the situation any more. The micro4/3rds is going to become a niche product, very quickly, if it does not revise its strategy and pricing.
APS-C sensors in compact bodies is the real revolution. Micro4/3rds was a false start.
I still think the X1 will be m4/3. That’s the only logical thing to do. And the specs on the other thread told us 4000×3000 which is a 4/3-sensor.
The german screenshot just says it has a sensor like “many” othe DSLR’s. This “could” mean APS-C, but could also be 4/3. It does NOT state explicitely APS-C. period.
And another hint: The other specs stated, that it will be a LIVE-MOS-Sensor. The only manufacturer who does LIVE-MOS is Panasonic, and Panny does not produce any APS-C-Sensors.