Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am not sure whose posts you are replying to. It certainly cannot be mine. Must be some fantasy. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Nov 25, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I don't doubt the CMOS 1.5x crop beats the full frame CCD in the M9 in low > light. I'm afraid I'm thinking more about a Leica M the new one a camera I > would love to buy and use more more than the M9 from day one. And its CMOS > full frame should beat the pants off a cmos crop and with Leica glass that > certainly clinches it. > Never the less I doubt I'd buy a 7 thousand dollar Leica body an M9 and > leave it at home while heading out on the road. Leave it at home with my > Leica glass so I can shoot some new prosumer here today gone tomorrow toy > which is what? A bit lighter? I'm more interested the images in my body of > work than playing with new toys every time I climb into my car for a road > trip. > What happens when I'm confronted with a truly astounding photo opportunity > and I have a Fuji in my hand and a 7000 dollar Leica at home in a closet? > I'd call that a nightmare I'd want to wake up from. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:35:13 +0000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> >> I have never really bonded with my X100, at high ASA it beats my M9 but in >> good light there is no comparison as far as I am concerned - this is from >> experience rather than reading web sites, unlike some ;-) >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> So, how many images have you made with the X100 since you know so much >> about >> it? >> >> Looking in my LR catalog, I see 1497 X100 images. Many of them are in poor >> light, and I would put them against an M9 any time. >> >> I am going to Paris for a couple of days on Tuesday, and because I need to >> travel ultra-light, I am taking just the X100. I am sacrificing some >> versatility wrt. focal length by doing so, but I am NOT sacrificing any >> image >> quality. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> >> >> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> The 800 dollar camera is in sync with the fact that its sensor is half >>> the size of the RX1. >>> This is the Leica list and we're talking about a high quality camera. >>> Its not a smaller then necessary format camera selling for the price >>> of a Leica lens shade. >>> The Rollei 35 and Olympus XA really could give your SLR quality. >>> If they were half frame cameras they could not. >>> The Fuji is a half frame in effect digital camera. >>> "quality" is not why your buying the camera unless your comparing it >>> against junk point and shoots. >>> And my apologies to those who bought the camera thinking you were >>> buying a piece of top pro gear. But it would not take a genius to >>> figure out a full frame compact was in the wings. And yes they cost real >>> money. >>> >>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >