Leica is teasing the launch of a new “mini M” Leica camera. That beaty will be announced on June 11. As you see it’s placed right between the Leica M and the X2 Micro M. It almost sounds like this could be a sort of fixed lens Full Frame camera like the Sony RX1. You have a good guess what this could be?
Source: Leica Camera (found via LeicaCameraForum).
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an M without the OVF ?!
The monitor at the rear of the camera to frame, focus and shoot…
An EVF as an option
+1
could be related to the new Panasonic coming ?
No to rebadged Pana GX2!
No to RX1 clones!
I would like to see (will buy it when it will be available in 2015! 😀 ) a digital Leica CL with integrated EVF and liveview and no RF. 😀
plus one
sensible wish
Vivek: To me, being a former Leica CL owner, this new Leica sounds similar to (the dreamed) Pana GX2. One exception is Leica will never use m43 sensor. The big ? Is if it is ILC or not. As lenses is where Leica shines, my guess and hope is ILC.
The Cl was a scale-down in size and build quality, but not in features. Contrary it had built in exposure measuring – very reliable.
My guess: Old M9 sensor in smaller and cheaper body – or an APS-C sensor in cheaper body. Actually there are Leica lenses on different price levels.
Will Leica Mini counter the Sony NEX FF or the Sony RX1?
“One exception is Leica will never use m43 sensor.”
They already did. The Digilux 3 was a Four Thirds DSLR based on the Panasonic DMC-L1. Also, Leica has been a member of the Micro Four Thirds consortium since the beginning, so it’s not a far-fetched idea that they would release a m43 camera.
A red dotted panasonic future GX2, sell at 2x Panasonic price.
Probably something lame like that. And yet, people will buy it and pretend it’s a “Leica.” At least it will probably be better than what Hasselblad did with the Nex 7. *ugh*
Don’t really understand your guess…If it’s placed between the M (full frame) and the X2 (APS-C), how could you expect that it’s a tiny 4/3 sensor? On my mind, a full-frame sensor with fixed lense seems more credible.
+1
Exactly what I wanted to say.
Or… what everyone forgot after only a few weeks: http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj524/picrumors/leicar9_vs_G6_zps654ae362.gif
Yes people, you heard it first from me :).
How about APS-H sensor and M-mount !
Smaller than 35mm FF, but bigger than APS-C and thus utilizing the M lenses better.
That would really be a “mini” version of a full blown M camera, and thus fitting the “mini M” name.
I believe it is,.an APS-H sensor ,.with an interchangeable,.M mount ,.just called it ,the new M8
I would bet a red-dot GX2, except that it seems like Leica has abandoned designing MFT lenses for Panasonic (only the 25mm and the 45mm, both old).
wetten dass… gabriels vermutung zutrifft. passt exakt auf/in den zeitkorridor der für die GX2 gerumort wird. ich hoffe nur dass die GX2 oder M-(light) ein fest verbautes lichtstarkes zoom-objektiv hat. MFT oder APS?. eher doch MFT, auch wenn leica früher schon mehrmals abgewunken hat. leicaobjektiv – MFT-sensor – warum eigentlich nicht.
If they’re willing to refer to their rebadged Lumix cameras as “Ms” — which evidently they are, judging from the graphic — it could be anything. My best guess is that it’s an X2 with a zoom lens.
But if we really want to make this a rumorfest, what if it’s a Leica-badged version of the Lumix L1 “revival” that Admin was teasing us about earlier today?
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/big-rumor-panasonic-revives-the-l1-and-makes-a-hell-of-a-mft-camera-out-of-it/
What about this one
http://leicarumors.com/2011/03/03/detailed-renderings-of-the-leica-mirrorless-aps-c-camera-concept.aspx/
Whatever it will be, it’ll be massivly overpriced like all Leica stuff and therefore in this day and age obsolete.
whatever it is…….it will be expensive
It should be m43.
Anyway it looks like Leica decided to whore out their “M” designation to cameras that dont have anything to do with M mount.
Loking through that scope it could be anything. Fixed lens fullframe or new mirrorless system made with Panasonic as tech partner.
My guess, and its just a guess, is that this will be a Leica branded version of the forthcoming Panasonic GX2. If so may not be a bd move on Leica’s part as the rumored specs of the forthcoming GX2 look very promising.
https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/502/749/original.jpg
Fugly!!
As classic as it can be.
World war 2 like! 🙂