Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some interesting and complex and analysis here but I'm wondering if it boils
down to who is going to spend 25 grand on a camera body with lens.
Its going to be a person who despite their burgeoning Hedge fund is more
than slightly interested in this whole photography thing.
In the old days we had "who is going to spend all that money on a Hasselblad
500cm!?!?" not a whole lot of rich dilettantes but a one or two.. You didn't
see a whole lot of those used as casual neck jewelry either!
On 4/8/14 6:14 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Frank Filippone wrote:
[Re: Leica S]
>Everyone wants to talk about the
> quality aspects, but the real question is
>if the quality improvement ( if
> there is one) is required in the market....
There's also the flexibility of
> using lens shutters and focal-plane shutters
>I still believe the biggest
> user of the D-MF stuff is well healed
>amateurs...... because the improved
> quality ( if there is one) is not
>required by pros, in general.
Most users
> of any camera system are amateurs, and whether the pro can take advantage
> of
> the image quality depends on the market s/he is in.
>... The D-MF market is
> tiny and Hasselblad owns it.
>I do not see that changing. Nor do I see Pros
> switching over to it...
Marc Williams ("fotografz") who frequently posts on
> the getdpi.com forum is one. He looked at the S2 when it was first
> introduced
> & at that time it hadn't ripened into a system so he passed on it? the H
> adapter got him to look again and he bought the body to use his H lenses
> with
> either FP or lens shutter (which he could not do with his H camera), tried
> the
> S lenses & once the lens-shutter versions became available he sold most of
> his
> H lenses, keeping only one.
Doug Herr
Birdman of
> Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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