What are some of the details of the new Leica M9 from the brochure that leaked?
Today’s exciting news is that the details of tomorrow’s “secret” announcement have been leaked in the form of a pdf brochure and an online mini-site. The products are the M9, an update to the M8 rangefinder line, and the X1, a compact camera with a big CMOS sensor. The M9’s big feature is its full-frame sensor, which will allow proper use of the company’s legendary lenses; the M8, like other crop-framed cameras, would make these lenses longer than they were meant to be. The larger sensor hasn’t added any sensitivity – ISO still tops out at 2500 – but it has let Leica squeeze some extra pixels on there: 18 of them, proving once again that a once innovative company has fallen behind the curve: Even Canon, as megapixel-mad a company as ever existed, has learned the error of its ways. Not much else is new. From the outside, not many people would spot the difference between the M8 and the M9, but then, the camera design is pretty much already perfect for what it does (apart from having to r
