According to Amateur Photographer “Leica bosses have revealed plans to announce a compact system camera at Photokina 2012 in a bid to compete with the likes of Panasonic, Sony, Samsung and Olympus. ” Leica CEO Alfred Schopf told AP that “We are looking into that… You will see something at the next Photokina” and “Asked whether Leica would include an EVF, Schopf said it would largely depend on the sensor used, hinting that it would prefer the built-in EVF option. “
No more details were unveiled but our sources already told us that Leica is very likely going to use Sony sensors. And now let’s see if Nikon and Canon will finally move into the mirrorless world. They won’t miss the party or not?
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OH MY GOSH!
Can’t wait to see their 4000$ MILC! lol
very late, but the first time not too late for leica. Evil is the future, and i cannot believe, that canon and nikon will ignore this fact.
very late? your talking about leica, they introduced their first digital camera at 2006.
Where is it written that it will be APS-C?
Err.. did you actually READ the AP article? The APS reference is all over the place… you aren’t BLIND are you?
let me guess, $2500 for body only and no autofocus since it’ll be using m-mount lenses.
It’ll probably be a Panasonic mft camera with the word ‘Panasonic’ filed off and a Leica red dot on the front, at about twice the price.
Hey, it worked for compacts…!
Not if they are investigating different sensor suppliers. If they where just going to rebrand a panasonic they would get the whole package from them.
Admin, any ideas would it use M-Mount? is there hope for any AF ability?
No idea yet.
Leica R lenses as well as M lenses could be used with a small mirrorless camera with adapters, so that may be the solution for their orphaned lenses that many Leica SLR users have been hoping for.
I’m quite sure it would use a full format sensor since
– that would be tailored to legacy Leica R and M lenses,
– it’s a niche without competition,
– with Leica prices, €/$ 1000 more or less for the sensor isn’t that much of an argument.
When you see the price of a Leica M lens…I think it could be great if they provide with this body with the capability to use R lenses. That would be a much cheaper option which will touch a bigger part of the market.
I know we are talking about Leica…so it is not meant to be cheap but I don’t see any Leica M8-9 users to switch to an APSC sensor with an EVF…that would be a non sens.
But…I see more all Leica dreamers to run on a cheaper offering like this announced Leica MILC with the capability to use cheaper Leica R lens.
What do u think about that?
Umm Leica already makes a mirrorless system, have been for more than 50 years. Perhaps they mean that is when they are introducing the M10? Otherwise if they make a m-mount APS-C camera akin to the old Leica CL to provide an inexpensive M-Mount camera I would be please, just use a Hybrid VF, not one of those EVF abominations.
>> Err.. did you actually READ the AP article? The APS reference is all over the place…
Yes, and that was exactly reason of my post – incorrect title.
Now I see it has been corrected.
yes, as i said, late, nearly too late. Leica is a champ to ignore trends.
Their first digital camera was the s1, just for info
WOW thanx! that was an interesting read!
they could have done it long ago since they are part of the 43 coalition. a real shame they don’t find the 43 image quality not up to their expectations 🙁
Nobody: the (very real!) limitations of todays optical viewfinders on Leica cameras are evidently due to the integrated rangefinder. If Leica used an electronic rangefinder instead, they could also implement a zooming optical finder, or a hybrid finder like on the X100 that could e.g. Automatically switch to EVF when a focal length outside a certain range (e.g 21-135 mm) is used. A further advantage of an electronic rangefinder might be that such a camera could be made smaller.
Wired says they may make a camera WITHOUT EVF:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/23/leica-m9p-launch