Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Erwin reviews new Summilux
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Jan 31 04:04:59 2009
References: <7ac27f4f0901301705g4d5b5b36v67fafe1bbef08d68@mail.gmail.com> <C5A95957.49363%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Film is almost relegated to fine art and stubborn cusses.  Except for Leica
you can have a pretty powerful digital camera for around $400 meaning
Olympus 410's, Nikon D40's, Pentax 10 and 20's, Canon XT's etc.  You gotta
love declarative sentences.  Leica desperately needs to hook up with some
decent full frame sensor manufacturer and some sophisticated software
engineers who can bring the same high ISO capabilities to the M8.X chasis as
Nikon and Canon have.  Then I can selfishly keep using the rangefinder I so
love for everything.

If someone came out with a rangefinderish camera and a premium line of
lenses can you say gone in 60 seconds?  My meaning for rangfinderish is the
window I so love composing photo's with instead of an SLR.  It could be a
really high quality LCD that show focus as you focus.  I don't mean to start
another wish camera list, but the G!0 with interchangeable lenses and a much
larger sensor would work for me.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> These super lenes by Leica to be used at a fraction of a fraction of its
> capabilities on an M8 with a 1.33 crop factor its enough but not quite
> enough to get someone to shoot film.
>
> Leica could make some killer DX lenes for the M8.
> Incredibly sharp compact glass designed for the 1.33 crop circle factor.
> Film shooters are getting to be the tip of the iceberg of a niche.
>
> A niche niche.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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