[Leica] Buying Leica.....

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

Peter,

I post pictures from my M9, my Olympus EP-1, my Pentax Kr, and my iPhone 5.

The most pleasurable to use is the M9, but I do sometimes need AF, and thus
the other three get some amount of use.

The quality of the "three" is not there, but I've learned to use them
appropriately, and with my editing eye, I can produce web postings that
satisfy, but the high detail of the Leica files enable me to do things with
flowers that just are not possible with the others.  So, to me, the camera
matters.  (I could wish for live view and a tilting Electronic viewfinder
though.)  ;-)

hmmm, (Sony?)






On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at 
summaventures.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> At the end of the day, whether we are using Leica, Fuji or something else I
> don't doubt that Uncle Doctor Ted would impatiently remind us that it's us
> not
> the cameras that take the photos, and that if we are any good anyway then
> the
> camera shouldn't matter a huge deal.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 26/06/2013 23:25, John McMaster wrote:
> > I really wonder if I would have bought into Leica if I was buying
> now..... I had not shot with nor knew anybody who owned one (I have owned
> Canon, Nikon, Contax, Olympus, Hasselblad, LF etc and shot with a lot more,
> all prime lenses etc) and thought the name was all image ;-)
> >
> > I was coming from an APS-C Nikon and was looking at Canon 5D II or M9,
> at that time size (I knew I would not carry a DSLR) so went M9. If the Fuji
> series was on the market at the time would I have bought that?
> >
> >>From http://zackarias.com/blog/
> >
> > "You see, for decades Leica was the shit for the traveling journalist,
> street shooters, documentary photographers, etc. They are fantastic cameras
> with an undeniable heritage. But here?s the deal. The folks who put Leica
> on the map can?t afford them any longer. They are a boutique camera
> company. The working stiff can?t shell out close to $10,000 for a body and
> a lens. Go price out 2 M?s, a 20mm ish lens, a 35mm, and a 75mm. Go price
> that out. Then price out an x100s, an X-Pro1, and the Fuji 14mm, 35mm, and
> 60mm lens. You still haven?t spent the price of a single Leica body yet.
> Let alone two of them. And glass."
> >
> > With hindsight I would still go Leica, nothing to touch the lenses for
> different looks and I prefer the simpler operation, but if I had not used
> them what would make me spend 'rather a lot' more on Leica than Fuji? Does
> 'full frame' or the build quality make enough of a difference for the price
> jump to most people?
> >
> > john
> >
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> Dr Peter Dzwig
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Sonny
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