Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its a compact premium item appealing to the gentleman photographer or lady. Is there a market for stuff like that? Check the history of Leica. The cheaper models which come in the next years will appeal to a broader market. They wont cost twice as much as a 1.5 crop they'll cost at least half that it would seem to me. But I think in a year you'll see more people shooting with near pocket full frame digitals than we ever did with Rollei 35's and Oly XA's. A less fancy lens will make for a more affordable product. And competition. And the fact that its not a first out innovation. The cats out of the bag. Full frame in a compact camera is possible. My D700 with a light lens weighs 3 pounds and I took a bad fall and messed up both wrists. A IIIF weights one. I do feel like I'm looking at some digital IIIfs in the near future and am happy as a clamshell about it. Or a digital OM1. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:04:00 +0000 (GMT) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Subject: Re: Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9 > > I have tried cameras without viewfinders. I can use them but I don't like > it. > I certainly can not hold them anywhere near as steadily, obviously. > I would not buy that Sony thing at $500. Maybe a few people might. I > wonder if > they will sell more than a handful at the asking price? > FD > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 21:06 >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Subject: Re: Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9 >> >> In a way good news becuae we know putting a full frame sensor into a near >> pocketable body does not cost near 3 grand. This is a premium into because >> of the lens. Quickly down the line I think we'll see them for under two >> grand. And they'll sell like hotcakes not just to discerning pros and >> advanced amateurs. But to darned near everybody. >> Some with no flash. As we'll all be taking out cameras out of our pockets >> and firing into those dark alleys at 1AM. And when we get home viewing it >> on >> our big monitors to count the rats and the junkies amongust the garbage >> cans. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information