Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are some one-owner M8s appearing on Fridays here and M9s for <$4K but sadly nothing other than those and the Ricoh A12 cope with wide angle Leica lenses very well. john ________________________________________ Spending two grand on a six year old cropped sensor is blatantly foolish even if it wasn't almost guaranteed trouble. I tried to buy it when it first came out I had the money I'd just sold my house. But they delayed it. Then they re did it . Then they fixed more stuff. They were handing out expensive filters for your glass then they stopped doing it. To anybody getting good results with your old M8 I say more power to you. But there's not 6 year old digital camera out there which is worth a quarter of that kind of money even a full frame one. I'm afraid Leicas first out digital M is no exception. The M9 however should retain much more of its value. Its a camera to take much more seriously. Unfortunately priced as such. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > Wouldn't a sub-$2K M8 make more sense for the Leica glass? Larger sensor > than > X2 or Canon M..... > > john > ________________________________________ > > > When that full frame mirrorless comes out with a Leica M adaptor I'll > really > be looking at it as of course I'd like to get my Leica glass going again > and > I need a price point way lower than Leica is about to give me. > > But I'm looking long and hard at the Leica X2. > The camera is simply gorgeous. > > > Mark William Rabiner > >> >> Aren't you the one that wanted an M10 with an optical VF? >> >> Frank Filippone >> Red735i at earthlink.net >> >> Its a mirrorless fairly tiny body with interchangeable lenes but a >> reasonably sized APS-C sensor. For such a tiny body I think its a very >> reasonable sensor to body ratio. At a very reasonable price point as in >> cheap. I like it. Looks like it would fit in most pockets and take very >> competitive pix against DSLR cameras three times its size. I call that >> Leica-Like. >> >>