Leica Camera Forum leaked a new image of the Leica X Vario Type 107 camera. Specs are the one I posted last week.
So after all my original specs were correct and the Leica teaser with the slogan “heard the rumors, get the truth” was just a weird attempt to fool us rumor sites 🙂
I guess no one will buy this camera. 2450 Euro for a fixed lens camera with 16 megapixel Sony APS-C sensor and slow lens. Niet!
found via LR.
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Nein! Herr Kommandant! Nein!
Exactly Herr Hendrick!! Do you have to pay extra to get the right-side strap lug?
I think a Downfall parody video is in order
“I guess no one will buy this camera. 2450 Euro for a fixed lens camera with 16 megapixel Sony APS-C sensor and slow lens.”
And the lens appears to be non-collapsing, meaning it’s useless as a coat-pocketable or travel camera. It’s just an awkwardly shaped not-very-compact compact with lackluster specs, no innovation, and no clear purpose in life.
But luxury-goods fans will buy it because it says “Leica” on it, and the reviewers on Leica-centric forums will discern that its images contain intangible superlative qualities that will not be visible to anyone else.
Nyet indeed. What a disappointment.
Sadly, THEY will buy it.
You know who you are.
Gähn. Die nächste bitte!
Leica is no longer interested in selling cameras to keen photographers. Their main market now is the newly riches in BRIC who couldn’t care less about photography but the brand.
Something about that red dot, it mesmerizes me.
It looks like a NEX with a slow m4/3 lens.
Wait that could be a good combo…
HA! Leica is about two months and a week late… Oh wait, this is a real camera? I guess they’ve been having too much success lately, they must have wanted to throw some of those profits away to right the ship.
I dunno. Maybe they really have confidence in the lens performance. It wouldn’t be a surprise because that is the one thing that they really are able to do.
When you take a moment to look at the enlarged version of the “reveal” photo from Leica’s own website, it doesn’t look much like the photo attached to this rumor, does it?
http://petapixel.com/2013/06/04/leica-mini-m-leaks-may-have-been-part-of-a-clever-marketing-scheme/
No exposure compensation dial? No shutter speed dial? Well, they know their market well.
Waiting for Tom to tell us this is all fake.
WHY?
Why is the strap lug separated from the camera body on this photo?
Will they sell it separately!?
Hopefully its not removable cause that would be a Very bad idea indeed!
I can already see lawsuits poping up cause the lug keeps unwinding 2 times a day… and your precious Leica crashing down on the floor.
Also f values still concealed…
Still I hope they wont make fools of themselves with that “heard the rumors, get the truth” statement.
Don’t worry Camaman, if it crashes down the floor it is far from being a precious Leica anyway.
LOL
Yeah that is really weird. Why would you need to remove the strap posts? Surely that’s going to let dust into the sensor?
Ridiculous design.
this really the final design?? it looks too photoshoped to me… that strap lug for example? twist and turn it a bit and remove the “shadow” and it’s the same as the one on the right……
http://i42.tinypic.com/ibw46x.jpg
leica, what ARE you up to?
I don’t think the lens will look like THAT… reminds me of the GF1 on a 14-42mm kit zoom (non-collapsible) lens.
But if it’s real… lol….
At least it has distance scale.