tim_cook

<blockquote> <p>Just imagine holding a beautiful M8 in your hands....and then a Fuji something or other about to be upgraded next week to another...well, Fuji something or other.<br> Sorry, just being wicked.</p> </blockquote> <p>@Allen, I know you were "just being wicked" three years ago now, but it feels appropriate to point something out now in 2016 - the year that the X-Pro2, the XP1's successor, has finally been released.</p> <p>The X-Pro1 was released in 2012 of course. Fuji have taken four years to come up with a direct replacement (whilst issuing a number of firmware upgrades to the XP1 to improve it along the way).</p> <p>Now let's look at Leica. The M8 you're so keen on was released in 2006. It was replaced by the M8.2 in 2008 - just two years later. Then the M9 turned up in 2009, just a year after that, making the substantial jump from APS to full frame. </p> <p>Of course they didn't stop there. Although not billed as direct replacements, there was the M9 Titanium in 2010, the M9-P in 2011, and then the M-E in 2012 - that's a new Leica M released every single year since 2008! Of course Fuji have released other bodies in their X system other than the two X-Pro's, but they've all been distinctly different bodies appealing to different styles of shooting - not just version upon version of the exact same product!</p> <p>Then there's the first M type 240 <strong>also</strong> from 2012, followed by the 240 M-P in 2014, the type 262 a year later in 2015, and the M-D from this year. The long, long list of massively expensive new M body upgrades will continue relentlessly long into the future I'm sure.<br> In short, it's a good thing that Leica's are still built like the museum pieces they're cynically modelled on, because it's quite clear that as far as Leica are concerned, each new model they release is already history before they've even left the factory. </p>