People still send me mails insisting that the Leica Mini M rumor has to be wrong. They don’t believe that:
1) Leica names a camera “Mini M” and it doesn’t have a rangefinder system (M usually stays for Messucher)
2) The Leica teaser placed the new Leica Mini M between the M series and the X series. Suggesting this would be something more advanced like for example a FF fixed lens camera or a Messsucher with ASP-C sensor.
3) The lens cannot be that slow: f/3.5-6.4
Guys, sorry to tell you, It’s a real deal 🙁
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You mean that what we saw (X-vario) is what we will get?
yep.
If you are right, then you are happy and some/many Leica fans dissapointed.
You gain more ads, better ranking, etc…
What if you were wrong? (as Leica homepage suggests).
How much this would affect your website credibility?
If he is wrong, he will drop that “trusted source” in the future. Why would such “sources” leak such things? That is the question that needs to asked besides “why would Leica disappoint its fans?”!
I’m not with you – what does Leica homepage suggest? Can’t find any info there about the mini Leica
The site suggests no such thing. It calls the d-lux6 the “nano M”. That Panasonic clone has no m mount.
The “micro m” x2 also has no m mount.
So disappointing! At least, as Zack Arias says, Fuji is the new Leica… Leica, as Polaroid and Kodak before, is probably going to bankruptcy and Doktor Kaufmann must be blamed for this.
nah , that rumor is not anything near truth ! The new teaser was clear that the rumors are BS 😐
They should do something about their BS department (Business and Sales). 😀
Talking about Apple, dreaming about Apple and how they do business does not translate to many other businesses. If Leica fellows are enchanted with Apple, they should buy and enjoy Apple products and get that fascination over with. That is the message, I hope, will sink into some dumb skulls at Leica.
Fujifilm the new Leica, that’s real food for thought… But Leica ain’t going bankrupt, they’re safe and sound thanks to lots of niche money.
Messucher translates as Me, sucker 😉
To use a fantastic brand to sell a camera that for literally everyone will see is inferior is also fantastic. Not in any good way at all. It won’t even bring money into the company. I allways want to understand the point , even if I don’t believe in it. Here I just don’t see the point.
So sad.
If you don’t see the point, someone else will. I don’t see the point with X1 and X2, but Leica still sell them. Actually most people don’t see the point with any Leica model, but the still do well and have problems meeting demand.
Here is an analogy: Look at the EOS-M, introduced at $899 in the USA. People looked at it and asked, “What was Canon thinking?” But at least optical performance was excellent, no problem with that.
Maybe you can change leses. Slow zoom would make sense then.
Well, official Leica web page tells to wait to see the truth. So, to me, this is a silly way to hype the new product. If not, hat off to the people who brainstormed to build this “fantastic” Leica camera. (Sarcasm + FacePalm + ThanksSonyForExisting)
It also could be a gigantic hoax, a bad taste joke created by Leica´s marketing department. This is the last hope for Leica believers…
You are giveing too much credit! Their marketting would need brains to storm with! LOL.
How do you explain the “heard the rumors? Get the truth” comment which is now up on the leica site? It suggests to me that at least some aspect of the specs or picture is incorrect.
Leica are banking that few people know what “Messucher ” means and only 1% of those knowsthatis what “M” stands for.
Hahaha! Its a new hipster age…
Hardly they explained what M stood for when they launched the last M.
They probably do not know what the difference is! They still call the Olympus EVF a visoflex!!
Yet again if people took the trouble to read the press releases the EVF was named Visoflex in memory of the original and the fact that it let you use SLR lenses not usually associated with the M. In the tech industry I work in websites are the greatest source of entertainment. An English saying “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing”
The Olympus EVF (that Leica sell rebadged for a premium price) would then be a Flex Viso because the EVF itself can flex. Visoflex is a misnomer for the EVF as there is no mirror in the EVF. The original viso flex had the name for a reason because the mirror flexes to allow for exposures. 🙂
There is no need to name something in “memory” when the newly released and current system cameras, namely the ME and the MM still can use the visoflex.
it’s never a good sign when your fans/customers are in denial about your upcoming new product.
That being said, the ultimate judgement will occur when people are able to try out the actual camera.
Absolutely disappointing, Leica is only better in respect to price but spex etc are inferior to the competitors. Even build quality despite of the M series is not as good as Fuji. I’m affraid they will not survive if they do not change dramatically …
If I am not mistaken this will be the first compact with an APS-C Sensor and a zoom lens. This is probably how they plan to sell it. Apart from beeing a Leica of course. 😉
Newest rumor
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just read on leicarumours its 2.8-4…so it was trick to brought more attention
The 27-75 2.8-F4 lens looks good.
Leica is dead.
Long live Fuji.
The Leica teaser ‘heard the rumours? now get the truth’ in my opinion, relates to the claims that the camera will be a dud, and clearly they are trying to sell the idea of a super-sharp,slow aps-c zoom. This is the camera that is coming and again, in my opinion, it will be a dud. If the most likely company (Sony) to release a similar camera does so, it will have a faster Zeiss lens, be half the price and make this Leica look even more ridiculous than it does now.