kik Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Does anyone know if they (Leica) are going to make a MP way shutter speed dial? If not let's start a petition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Have a guess...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kik Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 I know, but are they going to make a "version" the other way? if not, let's ask them to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I agree - it should be an option, even if it doesn't tie in with the little red lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_bretteville Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I understand the emotional ties to turning the other way, but what's the big deal? I have an M6 and a D2. The dials turn in opposite diretions - so what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
working camera Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Don't know if this is relevant to the M8... but it does have an モR9 type shutterヤ no? The pic above conforms to the R9 rotational set up. No Leica style variable programme mode... interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_bretteville Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Craig, that is what Leica have stated previously, it will have an R9 type shutter. This is supposedly it.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Give it up, already. The TTL/M7 dial is an ergonomic advance, and a delight to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_kan_th_rngren Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Yes, make an alternative M8 model that brings back the old speed dial, and at the same time remove the red dot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond_tai Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 If I ever get one I am sure I would leave it at "A" anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Rather than retool the production line to offer a backward feature, wouldn't it be cheaper for Leica to buy a few old barbershops on every continent to give the old-timers a place to hang out and gripe about the modern world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Can't sign it. It's another left/right thing. Too political for our Forum. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_mason Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Anyone else having trouble hitting the M8 puzzle site, from which the above photos were lifted, this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 kevin -- that was the biggest chuckle i've had in a long while. you hit it just right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 No problems accessing the M8 Puzzle site if this is the one you mean... http://www.lightmediation.com/blog/index.php?2006/09/06/25-leica-m8-digital-numerique-exclusif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 http://www.lightmediation.com/blog/index.php?2006/09/06/25-leica-m8-digital-numerique-exclusif# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Old-timers eh, fancy a race round the block Kevin? (clockwise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay_patel Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 "wouldn't it be cheaper for Leica to buy a few old barbershops on every continent to give the old-timers a place to hang out and gripe about the modern world?" It'd cheapest for Leica to just hire a barber to hang out on the Leica Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 "Old-timers eh, fancy a race round the block Kevin?" Only if there's a pint and a bar stool waiting at the end. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Now you're talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lb- Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 oh, maybe we can get them to make a version of the M8 without a meter or an lcd also. who wants to bet someone starts making an add on, purely cosmetic wind on lever? looks like theres room on the top plate to stick one on. wonder if it'll be available in a double stroke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay_patel Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 You're being facetious but I fully expect to read gripes from people accustomed to keeping their thumb under the partly-extended advance lever as an integral part of their grip. If not a dummy wind lever I do expect someone, maybe that Swiss fellow, to come up with a stick-on thumb rest for those folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug_d Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Isn't it quite late in the game to be seeking changes? I mean they are probably 30% into their production schedule and they are formally announcing the camera in a couple of days. I do not doubt that the boys in Solms have looked at feedback from the M7 and have made a decision based on a bunch of factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 "... let's start a petition!" Oh yea... that'll do it. Leica has only been producing cameras with shutter speed dials rotating "the wrong way" since 1998. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I miss the days of hanging out by the coffee pot at the camera shop. I'm letting my hair grow again anyway. After looking at those old photos of myself from the 60's and 70's I'm really curious as to how those hair styles will look with grey hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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