Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] Product lineup
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:32:13 -0400
References: <4FAD5B67.7080002@comcast.net>

Sounds far too logical.

Phil Forrest


On Fri, 11 May 2012 12:33:11 -0600
charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote:

>   Ernie "ludite" Nitka here:  Leica's lineup is confusing to me.
> They are making world class , super fast lenses as if we were still
> shooting film and at the same time making advances in ISO on their
> digital bodies.  So what is the purpose of a 21/2.4 on a monochrome
> camera with ISO of 10K ( assuming that usable iso is 2-3K).  It is
> rather mute as I can't afford the new , fast lenses even though I
> still shoot film.
> 
> If I were Leica I'd go back to f/2.5 lineup that was afordable and
> would mate up fine with higher iso M9.
> 
> en
> 
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