Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 12:32:19 2008

Steve,

Yes, I remeber film, but my wife will not let me use it.  ;-(  Sure miss 
using my R8.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
>
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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