Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not hardly Frank! Relatively easy to squeeze the guts of a compact P&S into the shell of a screw thread Leica I guess. Whether you SHOULD is another story ;-) Not the same as fitting an M lens mount on there though. I thought it was a fun gadget and ingenious idea well executed. But its just cosmetics without gaining anything over the original Sony P&S. So you get a $268 camera for only $2000 plus the Leica, parts and labour. Bound to start a good conversation when next you meet another Leica shooter though! For Larry, an X1 is already smaller than an LTM Leica body and the fixed prime lens is a beauty. It does cost about the same as this FrankenSony. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 29 March 2010 04:01, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: > #1, it proves it can be done, even if it is a 1-off. > > #2 You forget the most important issue...... at what price- point? $10K? > $15K? > For 20 hours of time, at $100 an hour, you are talking about $2K..... not > unreasonable, if it gives you what you want..... > > But Demo M8's are now $2500-3000...... which is a better deal, if what you > really want is a cheap Digi-M.... > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > Now if only Leica could cram the works of a M8 or M9 or even an > X1 into a CL case I would buy one in an instant. > > Larry Z > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >