Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Leica needs to make a full frame digital camera the size of a IIIF." HEAR! HEAR! On Nov 24, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Thing is the half frame compacts were few and not that small. > The Rollei 35 and XA were both way smaller than any half frame camera I > ever > saw. They had died out completely a bit before. > So the Rollei 35 and XA were not competing against half frame camera's > People got used to the idea you got full body results from a tiny camera. > Unfortuanly when the tiny digital cameras came out they thought that too. > And now with the RX1 they are right. They can I'm sure get monster DSLR > camera results with a body which fits in their jeans pocket. > This will be a great boom to photography I feel strongly. > In this months PDN the RX1 is being called the compact a Pro would want. > Problem is they said that about compacts with smaller sensors. > But I don't think they wont be saying that any more. > And the problem is these full frame ultra compacts are going to cost some > real money. Not a casual buy. > Do I want a D600 or a RX1? > I honestly now don't know. > I can see the RX1 doing as much for me as the full bodied mountain grown > D600. With me still using my D700 with all my glass I've got for it > starting > back from the 1970's. > > Leica needs to make a full frame digital camera the size of a IIIF. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:10:27 -0600 (CST) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>wrote: >> >>> Reading early releases on Sony's forthcoming ultrapremium-priced non-SLR >>> non-interchangeable, non-zoom-lens finderless full-frame digicam, >the >>> RX1, I >>> couldn't help but think about its nearest film equivalent, and one of my >>> favorite past cameras, the little Oly XA. I'll bet a lot of >LUGgers >>> past a >>> certain age used this little gem. How many of you still have yours? Use >>> it? >> ============================================================================== >> ======================== >> I've got two, and one is loaded with Tri-X right now. >> >> My first one was bought used from a photojournalist friend who used it >> clandestinely in Poland during the Solidarity movement around 1980. She >> was >> on a leave of absence there at the time, and found her Nikons were too >> visible >> to safely use during demonstrations, but the XA was easy to conceal from >> the >> authorities. She got friends to smuggle her film out of Poland and the >> photos >> were published in the Milwaukee Journal anonymously. >> >> I used this XA to shoot what is probably one of my five all-time favorite >> pictures: >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Color/Solitude_AMR.jpg.h >> tml> >> >> I'm very fond of the XA. It's so tiny and quiet for situations like >> these: >> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Travel/Art_Man_AMR.jpg.h >> tml> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/Heels_AMR.jpg.ht >> ml> >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Relations >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information