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Subject: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Sep 25 09:18:45 2008
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On Sep 25, 2008, at 8:25 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote:

> Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>> In the serious discussion I noticed several people
>> said or implied that they would probably never buy
>> another M body. I may or may not myself, but I was
>> thinking that I'm probably actually MORE likely to
>> buy another _leica_ than I was before. I suddenly
>> find the idea of having an R3 or some variant much
>> more appealing than I did before. (I'd love an R8
>> but I don't think the prices will likely drop into
>> "affordable for goofing off" any time soon).
>
> film: I won't buy another film Leica, the Leicaflex SL that I  
> already have
> meets my needs for a film camera and if you've looked at the KEH  
> catalog
> lately these are dirt cheap by Leica standards, like LTM cameras  
> were in
> the 1960s.
>
> digital: if the R10 is smaller than the R8 with DMR, has a viewfinder
> approaching the quality of the SL and produces files as good as or  
> better
> than the DMR, I'm all over it.  If the S2 indicates Leica's thinking  
> w.r.t.
> the R10 I'll be broke again shortly after the R10 first becomes  
> available.
> Better yet an SL3d.

I just bought an R6...and I'm actually using it ...

as well as my M7 and MP...

remember film,

what fun,

Steve



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