Does anyone want this also?

Really only Leica could get away with putting out a camera like the M10D, so if that's what you want, better snap one up. And even with Leica, we'll see how well it sells. And I say that as a Leica M10 owner. And make sure you buy an iPhone so you can actually set it up and modify the occasional setting. Nobody else is going to make anything like the M10D. Heck, nobody else is going to make anything like the M10 either. Nope, there is a set of features that the mainstream is going for and a set of features the Sony insurgency is going for and none of them involves a screenless digital camera EXCEPT for Leica who believes it has enough customers who can be depended on to spend a lot of money on an ... unconventional idea. Heck I guess I'm unconventional enough to use a rangefinder, so I'm not throwing stones, but the M10D is just a bit too far for me.

 

I'll say one thing. As easily as the Leica M meters are fooled by lighting conditions, it's pretty challenging to get it right most of the time. Back when I was shooting a Leica M2, I used a spot meter and was more careful. It was satisfying to overcome those limitations, but enough to go back to those days ... at least for me. So seriously, if you really WANT this kind of camera, Leica is the only brand who will ever make anything like it. Save your pennies.

richard wants an SLR, not a rangefinder camera, they are so different.

I know it's not a DSLR, I'm just saying that I don't see any DSLR maker doing a screenless DSLR ... ever. Leica is an odd company sometimes. I feel like all he has to do is to go film and he'll have hundreds of great cameras (with no picture viewing screen, though some have small LCD ones) at bargain prices. And many of them have either no meters, or selenium meters or meters that, when they don't have batteries, still don't keep the camera from working. Or he can find a billionaire to fund his own special camera. :rolleyes:

I knew this does not exist before I crafted my post, and am aware it may never. I am just sharing that I wish it did.

I shoot film currently. Lots of it.

Here's the thing . . . I have considered every camera that I have ever owned to be nothing more than a tool. Tools should be versatile.

When I go out and shoot for myself, my personal work, looking for things that might end up hanging on the wall in my home, I can shoot all day without looking at the screen on my Nikons. But, when I am doing the same work a thousand miles from home, when it will cost me a lot of money to recreate the opportunity, or when I am being paid at a wedding or a portrait session, I need to see that I got the shots that I need.

It's really nice to be able to do both with the same sets of bodies . . .