Will there be a sort of interchangeable camera?
Leica UK’s Richard Swan gave some very vague tidbits about the future Leica mirrorless (non rangefinder!) system. He talked with the guys over at Techradar (Click here) saying that the camera will fall between the compact X1 and the full-frame M9. And: “Swan expected that any future interchangeable lens cameras from Leica would be compatible with M-mount lenses. As the X1 uses a fixed prime 24mm lens, perhaps we could see an X1 styled camera with removable lenses.“. We can speculate with a price range somewhere in between 2.000 and 3.000 Euro.
Check the Leica X1 sprecs an price at .
Check the Leica M) sprecs an price at .
In a previous interview Kaufmann (the big chief from Leica) confirmed the new system will at least sue an APS-C sensor (if not larger) and be announced at Photokina 2012 (in September).
P.S.: There is a very first Leica M9-P hands-on at PocketLint (Click here).
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Hopefully the will ask for Panasonic to help implement their high tech gadgets into this camera.
God knows ther is a lot of things on the wish list… EVF, IBIS, AFLenses….
I hope will get most of these in the first release, and that Leica won’tbe a bitch an make us wait 10yrs until the camera in that price range looks, feels and operates like a 21st century camera can and must!
The title is quite stupid don’t you think?
It’s almost like saying, the new pencil will be priced somewhere between a quarter and 1 Million dollars.
Anyone follow me?
All Leicas are mirrorless.
was that necessary? i bet people know what the admin wanted to say, and besides not all Leicas are mirroless that’s a fact…
There is the minor issue of the Leica S2 having a mirror. There is the bigger issue that (interchangeable lens cameras) traditionally have been divided into groups by the kind of viewfinder they use:
-(non-through the lens) optical viewfinder cameras, often classified as rangefinders (though it included non-rangefinders like the Contax G),
– SLRs, and
– EVF, often classified as mirrorless (but excluding mirrorless cameras like the Leica M8/9 and Epson R-D1)
Rangefinders use mirrors to superimpose the rangefinder spot. As stated before, the medium format S2 is an SLR. The Leica R is their 35mm film SLR line. They even made a digital back for the R8 and R9. Other than the rebranded Panasonic compacts and the X1 I think all Leicas have mirrors.
More than the X1 means it’s too expensive for me. I’ll stick with m43.