Maybe In September There Will Be a Leica XI Digital Something Kind of Camera

Surfing around tonight there was this post and this post that said that there might be some new Leica cameras. The word "Leica" is kinda "leica" liking something, don't you think? Leicas were once the staple for real photojournalists. Then, the damn doctors and dentists discovered them. Can you imagine them doing a physical and thinking, "If I poke here and there I've already got a Summilux lens. And, if I do some scope work I can pay for that M!"? Now, it really really really seems that a full frame M9 is going to happen in September. There are a coupla things that bother me about it. Probably will have a Kodak sensor in it. And, bet it doesn't have autofocus or any of the neat bells and whistles that you find on those inexpensive DSLR cams. And, it will cost a the same as a gall bladder operation. But, then, at least there will be a full frame and those Leicaphiles can finally shut up with all their moaning that they didn't have the big sensor. There's more. Pix are surfacing that there could be something else in store named an "X1". Ok, that's a stoopid name. And, what's worse is the pictures that are floating around show something that looks like it was smelted in of the same warehouse that the old movie Metropolis was made. Gawd, I wouldn't want to walk around with it. People that do will look so ego-maniacal, at least in my double humble opine. You can't take a camera that looks like that and think it's a serious cam cam. It's like the Hummer that people drive thinking they look cool when they look stoopid. You always look at them and think that they paid manure loads of cash and couda had a Honda that gets 3-4 times the mileage. Let's hope the X1 photos are a joke that's on us rather than around us. On the flip side of that rubber grip story is the S2. That's one serious babette, I'm telling ya. I kinda leica it.