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Leica RED M Revealed

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It's a "piece of art" - a one-time collectible. Auction fodder. Nothing more. Improving on the M itself, I don't believe, was ever a consideration (though it would've been nice to see what Ive could do on that front).
 

chrism

Well-known member
I think asking Ive to do it at all was simply capitalising on his fame. I don't have the impression from this that he loves cameras in the way that Mr Kobayashi at CV did when he designed that lovely analog gauge on the top plate of the RD-1. This is so sterile, and so far removed from the 'camera porn' that I grew up with (I mean the big colour photos of Spotmatics, Konicas and Olympus cameras with impossibly tinted lens coatings that took up full-page ads in the camera mags of the seventies). It neither moves me aesthetically nor does it look usable.

Chris
 

airfrogusmc

Well-known member
I would love to have a fully manual 24mp Leica M FF CMOS with good ISO to 10,000 with no video, no FPS.

So come on Leica. I'm waiting....
 
V

Vivek

Guest
Apart from making a perfect moire target, the design with tiny holes also might dissipate heat better which in turn would give clean ISO10,000s easy. :)
 

jduncan

Active member
Function is a more important component to design than aesthetics.
- Every great designer, ever.
Hi,
I believe that the point is that I believe that function in this case is: Get a lot of money for the RED campain.

So compromising to much for making it an excellent photography tool will be sacrificing function for from.

Best regards,

J. Duncan
 

henningw

Member
I think asking Ive to do it at all was simply capitalising on his fame. I don't have the impression from this that he loves cameras in the way that Mr Kobayashi at CV did when he designed that lovely analog gauge on the top plate of the RD-1.
Chris
Mr. Kobayashi didn't. That was an Epson contribution.

Henning
 

asiafish

Member
GOOD eye! Makes you kind of wonder where he got the design cues for his M, doesn't it? :ROTFL:
I had two of those back in 2005 and was using it to video conference with my family while away on military duty. We take FaceTime, Skype and the like for granted today, but in 2005 this was cutting edge stuff.

The camera had decent credentials as webcams went. It was firewire powered, VGA resolution (low), but at something like 30 fps, which was incredible in 2005. modern Macs and FaceTime don't really look very different today.

Oh, and it was a very cool-looking design back in the day.
 
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