Leica AG registered the trademark “X1″ in July, 2009

11 Comments

1. steve
   Posted September 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

   I made this comment on an earlier thread but right at the end. Interested to hear your views:

   Hi there, frankly, I am not very impressed with any of this. The world of photography has changed (in my humble opinion). Essentially, photography is about two things, the lens and the film. At least, that is how it used to be (and still is for film shooters). For digital shooters, its about the lens and the sensor (the modern day substitute for film). In the old days it made sense to spend a lot of money on your camera as well as your lens as you had this camera for life. Why? Because as film changed and got better, all you had to do was change the film in your workhorse Leica and you had the state of the art gear.

   Now days, film does not change (in digital photography) but sensors do! Almost every few months, a new sensor is coming out, 10 mega pixels, 12, 18, 24 (and now 37.5(!)). APS and also Full Frame… Now, the problem is, its not so easy as pulling out your old film and putting in the new version…your sensor is stuck in your camera and is not coming out! Solution if you want the new sensor (read film)?…Sell/bin the camera, keep your old lens and buy the new camera with the better sensor. One heck of a lot more expensive than upgrading your film in the old days.

   What is the solution then? I say… Digital Backs or some sort of interchangeable sensor technology so when a new sensor comes out that one day will be say Full Frame, 35 mega pixels and have the high iso performance of say the Nikon D3 and better…I want to be able to take that sensor and put it in my trusty Leica and go on my way.

   All that is happening now is that they are building cameras that are super expensive but are obsolete very quickly not because of their lenses or their bodies…but because of the sensors they are stuck with. Come on guys… Build me a Leica that I never have to bin to get the latest sensor.

   That is my two pence.

2. naomi
   Posted September 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

   Oh dear! your plagiarizing skills have slowed down.
   Honey, it was up in the morning on the forums

   you are not picking up the (fake) M9 photo from DPreview?

   Tomorrow we will drop another bomb – keep an eye, pre-lunch GMT.

3. LR admin
   Posted September 3, 2009 at 5:24 pm | Permalink

   Naomi,
   Honey? I like that
   What makes you think that I got it from the forums? I receive a lot of tips on all three of my sites – why is this so difficult for you to understand? I do not check every tip I get with the “forums” before I post.
   I think you do not understand the term “plagiarism” – check it out here:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
   Just because a link to website exists somewhere on the Internet and I post this same link on my blog based on an email tip, doesn’t make this plagiarism. An URL address cannot be plagiarized.
   Apparently you are new to LeicaRumors – if you see older post you will know that if I get something from the “forums”, I always link back.
   I did removed the watermark from the pictures from yesterday – initially I though that I am the first one that got them and I wrong.
   So, if you want to get credit and if you are really the person who leaks those rumors, send me an email and I will be more than happy to quote you as a source. Otherwise somebody else will and you will be angry again

4. STT
   Posted September 3, 2009 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

   Leica X1 is put on the market in January, 2010 under 200k yen.

5. NikoDoby
   Posted September 4, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink

   Under $2,000US?! For a fixed lens camera? Wow

   200,000yen=$2,156.65US as of Sept/4/2009

6. Carl
   Posted September 4, 2009 at 2:45 am | Permalink

   Who says its a fixed lens? The image is surley of a pre production modell during development. I am totaly sure that once we see the real deal it will have an interchangable lens.

   Why take a step back to fixed lens when all the other brands go for interchangable? It really doesnt make sens. Its not like an X1 would compete for sales with a full frame M9 even if it had the leica m-mount.

7. Steich
   Posted September 4, 2009 at 2:55 am | Permalink

   Dear LR admin,

   as I am the one who first posted the “Deutsches Patentamt” link in http://www.l-camera-forum.com” on 9/3, I’d just like to ask:
   You really want to tell me that it´s pure coincidence YOU posted thinks link some MINUTES after I did?
   If you harvest the forums (which is ok for such a rumors forum), please be honest and make proper quotes…
   Stefan

   • LR admin
     Posted September 4, 2009 at 9:02 am | Permalink

     Dear Stefan,
     Did you check with Deutsches Patentamt if you can post their link? I already said that I got that from an email tip.

8. Manolito
   Posted September 4, 2009 at 5:37 am | Permalink

   UH OH naomi and Steich, Google picked your images! You can find them at images.google.com, why don’t you go cry there?

9. Stephen
   Posted September 4, 2009 at 6:28 am | Permalink

   Errr, can someone please comment on my post? I thought this was a Leica forum, not a forum to discuss Intellectual Property law… Thanks!

10. Walu
    Posted September 4, 2009 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

    Something from popphoto about rights on images (for few people crying on images):

    Copyrighted images can be used without permission or payment “for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research,” according to The Law (In Plain English) for Photographers by attorney Leonard D. Duboff (Allworth Press, 2002; $20). Exceptions have also been made for parodies and library use. Unsure? Contact a copyright lawyer.