[Leica] Leica heresy

[Richard Taylor]

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.  ButŠ  I just sold my X Pro-1 and all
>> it¹s 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, thoughŠ
>> 
>> Best, 
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> *My D300 and it¹s 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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