[Leica] About the Sony and the Leica M

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Precisely the way to purchase, use and enjoy cameras. I am with you on
your approach, it is similar to mine, except that I keep two full
systems for different subjects- Nikon & Fuji. The only thing we differ
on is that I like to use system lenses made for the body I am using,
because my eyes find it difficult to focus manually, and I need
autofocus.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> They both are transition platforms, and if we spend our money on them we should be willing to see something more wonderful come out sooner than we want.
>
> In my case, I was more willing to part with $2200 to buy the Sony than to take a bath on a trade on my fairly recently acquired M9.  This way, I still have the Leica.
>
> As I stated elsewhere, I found the Olympus solution to live view that Leica adopted a deal breaker back when I was shooting m4/3 as a solution to Leica R lens use.
>
> With grandchildren, cats and flowers, I knew I could never hang onto that rig and do what I wanted.
>
> I also yearned for a tilting back screen.
>
> I wanted ISO usable up into at least 8000.
>
> I wanted to be able to use some of my favorite oldie character lenses again, not just the R and M, but my Nikkors, and I even have a Konica f1.2 I can play with, not to mention some of the antiques for my Edixa.
>
> It might be fun to do this instead of shoveling them into a box and shipping them to KEH for a hundred bucks.
>
> Guess what?  I'm doing all that.
>
> Mostly though, I shoot with the Sonnars that were designed for the camera, because they perform so dang good.
>
> I've been doing some reaching lately in the style of my work, and happily, the camera lends itself to that, I think.
>
> Thanks for reading, if you did.
> Sonny
>
> www.sonc.com/look
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> Sent from my iPad
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