It turns out even Leica doesn't care much for the red dot...
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/06/21/leica-announces-the-m9-p-basically-an-m9-without-the-red-dot/
Leica, the only company who can charge an excess on a product by taking things away! (Ps only a little joke, the M9-P has that nice new screen too...)
So technically that camera should be free seeing as how some people think you are paying purely for the red dot
Leica, the only company who can charge an excess on a product by taking things away! (Ps only a little joke, the M9-P has that nice new screen too...)
The ancient panny underlying the OP's choice it probably would be!
A Leica with a Kodak sensor is still a Leica. I wouldn't call a Nikon D3X a Sony because it uses a Sony sensor. Just noticed this is 3 months old. Did the OP ever buy the camera he was after?
The Panny LX5 is a lovely Leica style compact which takes nice pics but not a patch on the Canon G12
It's rather ironic that the ultimate M series Leica has no badge or red dot!
The Panny LX5 is a lovely Leica style compact which takes nice pics but not a patch on the Canon G12 which someone bought along a few weeks ago, Great landscapers camera with DSLR sharpness at lower isos. Ideal perhaps for real hikers.
some of the Leica branded panasonics have almost a cult following nowadays!
consider the Digilux2, awesome vario summicron lens & classic rangefinder looks/handling
real analogue controls :
still selling used for upwards of £500!
not bad for a 7 year old 5mpix point & shoot
a few sample images on another forum i use here - http://www.sgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?375-Digilux-2
Haha, just read that. Useless above ISO 200 and 9 secs to write a raw file. But i have seen some stunning images from it and it is indeed a cult camera. I was very close to buying one.