Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark I have a friend in my city of London who uses an X100 for street photography as well as a lot of family shots as he has a 4 month old Son. The quality of the photos he gets is amazing and I've seen his prints framed as well which are amazing, especially in black and white. It's certainly a nice sized camera to carry around and does turn heads for sure. On 2012-11-25, at 1:35 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Its a nice camera the X100 ... pardon me please for hitting too hard the > point and it being a "quality" camera or not. Semantics. > Its a great camera for the person who owns it and is getting great shots > with it. > urns my head when I pass one on the street. Excellently styled. A super > great camera for the money is my opinion. And a bit of a milestone. > > Just bad timing as it was followed so closely by the full frame RX1 so the > honeymoon would have been shortened a bit on its stance on the total > playing > field. > That's my opinion. And I think it will reflect many others. Or I'll find > out > sooner or not. I just call it as I see it. Sometimes I'm wrong. But I'm > happy about how often I'm right my position is having done serious and > professional photography for many decades my first darkroom in the mid > '60s. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:34:14 -0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> >> Maybe I've bonded with my X100 because I don't have an M9. My bank >> account >> and I can see where this is going. >> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 11:35 pm >> >> >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information