Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is interesting that only in the past few years having gone mainly digital and living in NY that I've bought cameras I'd not really inspected closely in person nor fondled or peered though. My main camera I use now I think D700 is in that category and it cost twice what my first Hasselblad or Leica M6 did. And those cameras I know what their inventors had for breakfast the morning they were invented. I experienced the D700 vicariously on the internet there was no Pro Photo or Camera World in Portland for me to go to and play with them nor hang out at and ask my Pro friends about. That will NOT be the case though with the D600 I'm going to want to feel what its like to have that camera in my hand and if it feels cheap or not for its two grand USD I'll be amassing for it. The Sony I'm not realistically pre visualizing my owning. Its a paradigm shift maker. With its relase full frame compacts have officially hit. And we know at first at least the bottom line is 3 big ones USD. So I can now have a camera I hardly know is on my person which when I pull out I can shoot with with the same ISO's and quality levels I could with my 2.2 pound D700 which cruises happily on unlit sidewalks at iso 64,000 with little to no noise issues or what dynamic range is not being preserved. The basic form will not be altered all that much when those cameras come out real soon with interchangeable glass to put in front. And with that a Leica M adaptor. And that's the stage I'm waiting for because for 3 Grand my M glass is going to have to fit on the front of it. And that will happen soon I'm going to guess 4 months. This will be I see a bit of a threat to Leica because there will be those who are in my position who were in the position to shell out 6 to 8 grand for the latest Leica M and that's not my financial position. 3 grand is for me daunting but doable in the $$$ department. A full frame sensor chip cost twice what a cropped one does. I think we've absorbed that now and have gotten over it. We know what it can bring to our results so if we feel we need that we can now go for that in more compact cameras which will be with us. Like a Rollei 35 might have been. Or our IPhone 5's now are. Getting our minute by minute experience. Leica has to get over the fact that they are making M's as fast as they can but a compact more affordable full frame is not going to ruin that. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:42:18 +0530 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1 > > 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/ >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information