Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Mark I have read this opinion many hundreds of times in the last few years. But every time it was you who wrote it ;-) FD On 10 Feb, 2011, at 19:24, Mark Rabiner 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