Internet forums and the Leica SL release

Lensrentals Roger Cicala pretty much covered gear forums with this parody of the Hammer Forum and the 300+ readers comments cover just about all the remaining aspects.  Roger Cicala then summed up perfectly the reaction of photography forums to a new product announcement with this graphic in a post on Roger's Law of New Product Introduction

Copyright Roger Cicala, Lensrentals, http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/01/rogers-law-of-new-product-introduction

It is fair to suggest that internet forums are the peanut galleries of the online world and some are more febrile than others. A new product release from Leica is akin to the proverbial red rag to a bull for photography forums, it seems to be an opportunity for some forum posters to vent their spleen and no doubt provide fruitful material for a group of psychologists to analyse.

Leica have announced the FF Mirrorless  SL Type 601 and a trawl through the usual suspects gives some insight into Leica's capacity to stir the emotions in the peanut galleries

GetDPI
http://www.getdpi.com/forum/leica/56286-leica-sl-601-oct-20th.html

Leica camera user forum
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/251840-leica-sl-typ-601-mirrorless-system-camera-without-compromise/

Luminous Landscape
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=104826.0
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=104801.0

FredMiranda
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1393428/0

DPReview
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7448206943/a-lot-to-leica-hands-on-with-the-leica-sl-typ-601 

I'm a member of Fredmiranda.com and the one benefit of membership is you have an option to Hide posters, I exercise this option for posters who either, have strong opinions on photographic matters but demonstrate no evidence for actually taking photographs and/or display the unhealthy traits of religous fanboys. Which means threads such as the Leica SL reveal only a couple of posts on some pages and unsurprisingly it appears Sony A7 series owners are the most vocal.

My interest in the SL, is that I own legacy R lenses mounted via Leitax adapters on an approaching 8 yr old Canon 1Ds3. Canon discontinued the 1Ds series and every DSLR they've released since hasn't really compelled me to upgrade. Now the newly announced SL can mount R and M lenses via adapters, which also opens the way to some high quality M lenses. It will be interesting to see user reports on R and M lens performance on SL sensor. IF optical performance is uncompromised, I will certainly be very interested.