[Leica] TL2?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Cameras need to remind you of cameras. They need to hark back to the 
verisimilitude of operating a camera. Should they remind of a sewing machine 
or telephone or egg beater it?s not doing anybody any good.
I just read a handful of reviews of the just announced today Leica TL2 
before I found one which bothered to mention the sensor size. It?s APS-C. 
1.5 crop. It?s supposed to make you not miss your iPhone burning a hole in 
your front pocket but in the end, just reminds who your true friend really 
is. It?s the one you take pictures of your head next to the Eiffel Tower and 
Mount Rushmore.  Who needs it did you iPhone forget how to take pictures? It 
needs you are you reading this text on it right now? Thanks good.  I think 
the best way to compete against iPhone photography is to just make cameras 
which take noticeably better pictures and which can with a press of a button 
be forwarded to the internet so your friends won?t miss what you are having 
for lunch.  I think people who are into their photography just a bit will 
stand to not be reminded every second that they?re not using their iPhone. A 
camera does not need a touch screen iPhone like interface you end up mad at 
it you can?t make a phone call with it.
Possibly the key to who this camera is aimed it can be found in the fact 
that few of the reviews bother to mention the sensor size. The format. The 
bottom line of any camera.
So, it?s in the category of shiny electronic devices which make you look 
rich and interface with your computer stuff wirelessly for the most part. 
Stuff you could maybe play with if you ever got tired of playing with your 
iPhone which face it is not going to happen.
I do think Leica is off the hook as for every bomb like this it comes out 
with it comes out with a legitimate camera system a few months later. There 
literally is a new Leica camera system coming out every season. This is the 
summer camera. It fits in the beach bag with the towels and suntan lotion. 
The autumn system will be more serious to match the autumn movies which 
everyone will watch on their iPhones. Hopefully with earphones.



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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

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