Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, So when are you going to buy one, sorry, I got that wrong, I mean actually touch one? (-: Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > As a professional, I owned a Rollei 35, and an Olympus XA clamshell both. > As > did a half the photographers I knew. > This camera translates directly to the digital equivalent of that. The RX1. > Very compact. But very capable. As the sensor is not unnecessarily small. > I think we'll be reading and seeing about the tons of pros who have the RX1 > at the bottom of their camera bag. If not the top. If not in their top > shirt > pocket at all times. > It is true you are only as good as the camera you have with you. > This camera can be with you. And make a result: digital file, jpeg, print > which may be indistuqisuable form one from a top DSLR. I think that's what > we are going to find out quickly to be the case. Its very exciting. > We Leica people would be into compactness it should be right up our alley. > The D600 should also be exciting news as many of us are already into Nikon. > And the hopes that it gets the Leica people motivated to come out with a > camera which is pocketable and worthy sensor size wise. > I still have a nice set of Leica M glass. And its looking more and more > than > I'll be able to find a camera body to put them to use in the very near > future I can afford to get. At that point it could become my main camera > system. Things are looking up. The camera companies have to find a way to > get people to put their iPhones down. So they have to think and do smarter > and better. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >