No mirrorless cameras with EVF from Leica?
A few months ago Mr. Stefan Daniel (Director Product Management at Leica Camera AG) had an interview with Leica Blog (Via Megapixel) said that optical viewfinder will get less and less important. This of course led us all to believe that the time may be close for Leica to launch a mirrorless camera with electronic viewfinder. But according to our (very good) Leica sources there will be NO camera like that at Photokina. Plans for EVF cameras have been pushed forward to 2013. Too bad, really hoped Leica would be the first camera maker to launch a Full Frame camera with Electronic Viewfinder. That camera could have been a lot cheaper than the Leica M series also because they would get rid of the expensive and spacious rangefinder mechanism.
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Reminder: These are the hot points from Mr. Stefan Daniel interview with Megapixel:
1) “The experience with the very successful Leica X1 leads us to the opinion  that a Leica with an interchangeable lens should have at least an  APS-sized sensor.“
2) “I think that the quality of the 1.4MP finders is  already very  good, and sometimes even more accurate than an optical  finder, think of  white balance or exposure. Over time, as technology is  improving, optical finders will get less and less important. The X100  finder is a very nice concept and well executed.“
3) “Offering additional functions such as video and live view would extend  the usability of the M camera significantly. CMOS is a prerequisite for  it, therefore it will be the technology of the future.“

