Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/03

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Subject: [Leica] Leica heresy
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:44:44 -0500

Was not referring to you Richard but the guy with the website who did the
writing on the thing.


On 11/3/14 7:18 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:

> Jeeze, Mark, take a deep breath will you and re-read my note.  It was a
> ancient 12MP D300 that went not a D800.  As I get older I don?t what to lug
> all that weight around so I didn?t wasn?t to upgrade my Nikon stuff.
> 
> 16MP is enough for what I want to do regardless of sensor size so I?m 
> mostly
> shooting with an Oly EM-1 these days and pulled my old micro 4/3rds lenses 
> out
> of the closet to use on it.  Two of them are PanaLeicas?s.  Great stuff.
> 
> ? though I must say a yearning for one of the Sony A7?s persists and one 
> may
> end up in my hands one of these days.
> 
> You have your needs, I have mine.  Mustn?t confuse the two.  If you need a
> large sensor hi-res camera, use it.  I don?t.
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 03, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> Funny but this is a guy who in effect traded his D800 Nikon for a Fuji
>> X100s. So its clear he's missing a few links in his grasp of camera
>> function. Great with typing out  caricatures of people based on this non
>> grasp of the basics of what certain cameras are all about and what certain
>> other aren't.
>> 
>> Why do I need a Nikon D800 full frame 36mp camera when I can just shoot 
>> with
>> a 16 Mp APS-C cropped Fuji pseudo rangefinder listing for $999?
>> Because there is little overlap in what these camera are all about.  If  
>> you
>> bought and used to of the rez Nikon why would you even look at the Fuji?
>> The 800 now 810 is the king of full frame cameras when you need the 
>> highest
>> resolution and tonal range possible.
>> The fuji is when quality is not so much the issue as you are shooting a
>> cropped camera which is all about compactness and low price point and 
>> trying
>> to pass itself off as a bargain basement Leica.
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/1/14 10:23 AM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Amen!  Very funny, very on the mark.  But?  I just sold my X Pro-1 and 
>>> all
>>> it?s lenses because all the new lenses Fuji has announced will be 
>>> physically
>>> large.* More and more, I find, I want to carry less and less when I
>>> photograph.  I kept my X100s, though?
>>> 
>>> Best, 
>>> 
>>> Dick
>>> 
>>> *My D300 and it?s two big zooms went months ago, too.
>>> 
>>> On Oct 31, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> He got it in one...
>>>> 
>>>> Jay (who has a X100T pre-ordered.)
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/31/2014 5:54 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
>>>>> A camera walks into a bar:
>>>>> 
http://www.tomen.de/fuji-x100s-review-a-camera-walks-into-a-bar-zack-arias>>>>>
/
>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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>> Photographer
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>> 
>> 
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