Valentin Sama from DSLRmagazine is not certainly someone that spreads rumors without having heard something from his reliable sources. We already told you on MirrorlessRumors that Leica is definitely going to make a new mirrorless system, without the expensive rangefinder system. We have been told that the complex rangefinder part of the costs alone $1500 Euro! Valentin Sama doesn’t know yet if the Leica mirrorless camera will be a clone or something completely new. One thing is certain, it will not have a Kodak sensor. The reason is that Kodak doesn’t have any CMOS sensor (which you need for live view). So the choice seems to be between the Panasonic Micro Four Thirds and the Sony APS-C sensor. Leica once said they didn’t join the m43 group because the sensor was to small. So what will it be a MFT camera or something completely new (and with Sony sensor)?
Links:
– The Leica mirrorless system will allow you to take use of the .
– The Panasonic GF1 at
– The Leica M9 at
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Good news.. hopefully we finally see a pro-level mirrorless.
interesting.
Does Leica plan to arrange the market with high-level full frame camera and middle-level APS camera?
I am just wondering whether Leica will use AF lens on this camera.
Here’s a official statement from Leica:
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/leica_responds_to_mirrorless_camera_stories_news_305883.html?aff=rss
You should go to the source, that looks like has an opinion about the “statement”
http://tinyurl.com/6j3zt3m
Leica is right: in fact I wish Olympus or Pentax would get their heads out of their a**es and make a full-feature mirrorless with the rangefinder built in as on the Fuji x100 already. As far as I see it alot of people are screaming for such a type of mirorrless camera.
Stop dishing out the ep2 style mainstream stuff already and give us proper full-feature mirrorless/rangefinder hybrids!