Shingleton at the races with his new Leica Q
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Our man in Australia has been laid low with a nasty bacterial infection. He is in hospital in Sydney and all Macfilos readers wish him a full and speedy recovery.
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Leica's official statement on the TL2 problem...
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Thanks to Macfilos Mike has made many new friends, including Leica specialist dealers such as Ivor Cooper of Red Dot Cameras seen here on a visit to the Bièvres Photo Fair in France in 2016
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Maintaining a blog and setting a target of an article every day is a tough business. Mike discusses the possibilities of taking a summer break.....
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Sales of Leica's new TL2 camera have been suspended while the factory investigates a potential problem with the use of the Visoflex electronic viewfinder....
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Hmmm.... Bog standard camera, no bowtie and certainly no collar stays
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When you next get the urge to buy a bowtie, a set of cufflinks and a handkerchief, why not throw in a silver chrome M10 and lens? It might just about make sense but it does nothing for Leica's image. Mike fumes......
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At the car show: The new M10 makes friends with the WATE and the Frankenfinder but quite likes the 24mm Elmar
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It's all a matter of scale. Combine all the gorgeousness of the SL, its wonderful viewfinder and excellent handling with a smaller APSC sensor and we have the ideal smallish beast to tempt the faithful. Could this be a reality in the future?
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Leica has put far too much development into the TL system to stick with the rather niche modernistic TL2, good as it is. Mike scents something lurking in the backwoods.....
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Everything you need, nothing superfluous. The Leica SL presents a near-perfect approach to menus and controls. It contrasts strongly with most modern digital cameras, particularly the over-complicated Olympus OM-D line
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Feature bloat is a depressing by-product of camera manufacturers' need to keep up with the Joneses. Do you need that over-complicated menu, that video button, the myriad of customisable function buttons protruding from every surface? Perhaps not. The ideal for me is a camera that can be customised down to achieve a minimalist approach to photography.....
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A quick bug fix for Leica M10 but no new features:
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Tempted to buy the new Leica TL2 and a basic 18-56 zoom lens? That will be £3,000, dear sir or madam, without the viewfinder of course. Well, you can buy a lot of other stuff for that cash— as Amateur Photographer points out this week — but this is all missing the point. First you have to move over to Leica's parallel universe.....
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