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Subject: [Leica] More new Fuji X100 info
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:42:00 +0530
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Better US$1200 for four years than US$7000 for four years. (-:
All digital equipment has a life of less than four years anyway.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> The value perception of cropped camera systems is going to plummet solidly
> in a very few years if not sooner. If you want a return on your investment
> you might not get it like you'd expect to with much gear you get now.
> If you got an M8 which ?you can get ?now I think for quite cheap despite 
> all
> the problems involved with it all the glass you accumulated for that camera
> would then be usable on the M9 or any full frame camera Leica comes up 
> with.
> I'd go that route then.
> I'm not seeing teachers in schools telling their students to get a Fuji
> X100. They'd be telling them to invest in a system which can be upgraded
> seriously. The Fuji X100 for its existence (I give it four years) will be a
> play toy for people with available cash who like to buy and sell photo 
> gear.
> It won't be used much by people taking a potentially serious interest in
> street or any other kind of photography. Its a here today gone tomorrow
> special. Yes very retro. The lack of distance scales on the lenses could be
> thought of as a dead give away. As is looking at examples of 4000 across
> pixel images which measure 2 inches across your computer monitor and cant 
> be
> viewed larger.
> It's an emperors new clothes camera system. ?We all know deep inside its a
> waste of our time and resources. Its not about photography It's about
> playing with new toys.
>
> When we started out decades back with an M2 or a Nikkormat the film it shot
> was still 36mm's across just like all the big boy cameras and all the glass
> we got could be used on our later big boy bodies.
> Its good to have later bodies in mind.
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
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>
>
>
>
>> From: Quan Tran <quantran101 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:28:02 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] More new Fuji X100 info
>>
>> I have been following this camera on and off. Still wonder how one would 
>> do
>> zone focusing without the distance scale on the lens? I want to learn to
>> do street photography, but could not afford a M9 and 35mm lux. I wonder if
>> this camera could be good for beginner street photography?
>>
>> Anyone wants to offer advise?
>> -Q.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/gallery/images?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&;
>>> utm_campaign=feb
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/story/mechanical?utm_source=email&utm_medium=emai
>>> l&utm_campaign=feb
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/whats-new/press-release?utm_source=email&utm_medi
>>> um=email&utm_campaign=feb
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Quan Tran.
>> blog: http://1lens.wordpress.com/
>>
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