Read in DPR that there may be a dedicated Leica forum on DPRevive. Is a dedicated Leica forum planned? Thanks.
March 31, 2023
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It already exists but it’s very quiet in there. There was a request to increase its visibility, but that didn’t find favour with the admins.
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Maybe one day an admin will add a third option to the search function:
Threads
Users
Brands
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I remember in DPR it was very late that Leica had a dedicated forum as well.
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Yes, I propose it too, I think putting Leica inside the “other brands” category like if it was Casio is weird, but got no response from the admins, not about a couple of things:
having a dark mode and some sort of notification at the homepage like DPR to easily find when we have a response or a comment. 🤔 -
We could have a section entitled Leica and L Mount discussion if you wish. Who else is in the L mount accord? I know of Sigma & Panasonic. I can include Sigma, but Panasonic is already in another section.
Alan
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No one responded. Will what I proposed above work for you?
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Slicing the community into more and more pieces?
That's not what attracts me to come here.AFAIK the L-Alliance has three members: Leica, Panasonic, Sigma.
They all share the same system mount (the L-Mount), and IMHO the appropriate section for all of them already exists here: "L-mount Talk".As I own multiple L-Mount cameras and lenses as well from all three members of the L-Mount Alliance I won't frequent an IMHO redundant "Leica and L Mount" section.
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Which Panasonic section are you alluding to?
Panasonic LUMIX S (L-Mount) is neither LUMIX G (MFT) nor LUMIX (compact). -
"The L-Mount Alliance is a partnership between Leica Camera, SIGMA, Panasonic, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH and, more recently, DJI."
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All I wanted was to move some of the existing forums to a dedicated "L Mount" heading as I think some didn't want Leica lumped in with "Everything else".
At the moment, I think I will create a dedicated heading called "L Mount systems", and move Leica, L Mount and Sigma into that one. That's 3 forums which already exist so nothing new, just a re-arrangement. I may rename "L Mount" to "General L Mount talk". I will also add a new forum called "Panasonic Lumx S" if that is the L mount cameras (sorry, I am not up to speed with all the different options).
Will that do for now?
Alan
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I couldn't find Leica on the home page, its visiblity is non existant, maybe a reason for low turnout. The URL on a previous post worked but I still couldn't find it on the home page. Sould be between Fuji and LMount.
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I see it on the homepage, but only listing it under L Mount isn’t accurate. Leica L-Mount is fine where it is, but Leica M-Mount and the other Leicas should at least be under Other Brands if not top level like Fuji and Pentax.
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I could have sworn it was under Other Brands previously. I went looking for it to reassure myself that this was easily done — and was surprised not to find it.
I concur that a subset of L Mount is less than ideal. None of my past association with Leica involves that mount and it is unlikely to be a feature of any future purchases either.
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I don’t think that Other Manufacturers is appropriate because that would imply that Leica is non-active/legacy as much as Samsung, Kodak, and Casio are. If Pentax can have a top-level slot then so can Leica with several sub-forums of M-Mount, L-Mount (mirror), Other Leicas.
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I've fixed it. L mount has it's own category and inside there are the Leica & L mount forums
Alan
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Leica and L-mount are 2 separate things. My M8 and M9P bodies use M-mount lenses and not L-mount. the Leica Q has nothing to do with L-mount either, not a V-Lux or D-Lux cameras.
Sorry but I don't understand your criteria for why Leica can't have a forum in the main section like any other brand. If you see the current threads none has anything to do with Leica and L-mount.
