[Leica] digital R question

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

At 04:13 PM 11/24/2004, feli wrote:
>But frankly I don't think there is anything they could do to satisfy you, 
>short of coming out
>with something as advanced as a 1ds II. And then you would probably 
>complain that they
>merely matched the competition, instead of leapfrogging them. You 
>obviously think they are a bunch of idiots and are waiting for them to 
>fall flat on their face so you can say "told you so."

While I do not share B.D. un-enthusiasm toward Leica/Rs/etc., I have to say 
that despite that the R8/R9 supposedly handle very nicely, it is definitely 
not very, um, Leica-tradition like (what are they call, the hunchbacks of 
Solm? :-) ) If they put the same everything into a smaller camera, I bet it 
goes a long way toward making them more acceptable to the traditionalists, 
myself included.

Then again, I have the exact same beef against the Oly E-1. What were they 
thinking to make it so un-OM like :-) ? I wonder what Maitani-san is using 
nowadays :-)

Then again and again, even the Canon dSLRs seem too big for me, so may be I 
am just a minority of one. Oh well, keep dreaming for that mythical Leica 
Digital M.

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