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Yes, I'm too skeptical. I bet the lossless is fine. My credulity was somewhat smeared by Sony,  Ironic since almost certainly that will be my next camera, with mod.
Adam, I'd love to have one too. It's done so well. ISO 6400, jeez if true that is huge. The new finder...I drool. Shutter meant to be fantastic. Battery.....if it's as good as M9 it's alot better than A7. We'll see. After using RX1r2 and Fuji XT2 I now know what truly TERRIBLE battery life is like. Price is actually good considering what you get and how many they will make.
Right now Leica is killing it really. S 007, Q, SL, and now M10. Those are superb cameras. Who makes all that stuff for them? I was pretty impressed the SL was easy to find. Let's hope the M10 is not too hard to get like M9 and 240 started out.
The profile effectiveness on older lenses is what I am very curious about. Frankly I don't think Leica is specing microlenses, they are already offset in all modern sensors I think. So there are just two factors: the IR cut glass type and thickness and the processor. There are some new Schott options which supposedly can be thinner than the .8mm in the 240, but I am a little skeptical since the curves are not as nice. But they may well be able to get more help from the processor, which the Sony A7 design team claimed years ago was possible. The Q has all kinds of processor help for it's lens. I want to see the pre-asph 21/2.8 on the M10, and there are some others. As to the new "digital lenses". Jury is out. 28 cron v2 has had serious copy variation. There have been some very friendly lenses, top of the wide list are the SEM 18 and 28 Lux. The SEM 24 is not friendly, nor the 35 Cron asph or 28 elmarit, but they are at least mostly corrected already. You can tell pretty easy which are which by how they work on the Kolari, which still has .7mm of clear glass more than the 240. Kasson found the SEM 18 on Kolaro equal, as did DigiLLoyd, who also said the 28 Lux was basically the same with his A7r2 test Solari.
Put claims it's the processor alone which is boosting the ISO performance above the SL. So there may be some room to also put that to work and clean things up enough to notice with the "film lenses" on M10, and supposedly they spent alot of time on just that. After all it's "Willi", the new M3
People do not seem to drastically care about the 24mp current limit. I first thought 42 was going to be a big trade, but the RX1r2 showed me the Sony BSI sensor is really something, usable to 6400 and making files which edit like a dream in LR. Would make a fantastic M sensor, with just the IR cover like Leica has used in all it's digital M. Also solves the video heat issues. It's why I will do a mod over a new M. But the 42 number is bit misleading, since at that size things are not clean. It's when you bring those files down a bit that they really sing. I wonder exactly where that point is, 36mp? or 30 maybe.
As to the Fuji MF. Would be a very nice thing to have lying around. But not very practical for me. Let's see how long they can stay out of the FF market--a while I suspect since they are making a fortune in APS-C and have everyone hypnotised with their "emulations", and nice little primes. Who will be next with a mirrorless FF? A9 coming, going to be too big, I bet. Konost, that will be a little cult hit, you watch.
Canikon.....would be so fun to bug the meetings. Have they drawn anything? Which one will go first?
Leica's new mini-SL....myth or reality.... Just imagine something a bit more lean than original A7 with build of SL...yum. I will just be plodding about with M9 and A7r2.mod2. And my favorite lenses, which is what I really care about and still must control myself in acquiring.. 
For those who do go forward, the M10 will be a real treat: simply more a pleasure to use than any CRF to date. Luigi must be hard at work, getting ready 
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