[Leica] Leica is now selling pre-brassed cameras so every couch potato can look like a badass journalist

[Mark Rabiner]

Yes that Hasselblad takes effete camera craziness one step further.
I'm consoled slightly by the fact that Hasselblad doesn't really exist any
more but is just a brand name traded back and forth between big money
concerns.
I'd not mind some camera company coming out with a simplified non high end
solution for my Hassy Zeiss glass which I still hoard.
Perhaps the same company who comes out with a silver picture taking slab for
my Leica M glass will also come out with one for Hassy Zeiss glass. And
while there at it perhaps one for you guys with your Leica R glass.
I do think that long lenses in from of skinny slab mirrorless cameras is a
craze which is coming to an end. They really do seem quite front heavy and
awkward looking.

On 2/24/15 9:23 PM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> I've learned to be philosophical about Leica 's special editions they do it
>> to make money so they can make more user Leica gear we would hope to be the
>> point.   The kind that you'd take a picture with not just put in a safety
>> deposit box.
> 
> I wouldn't mind at all if they'd put the 'collector edition' profits into a
> real R solution.  Otherwise they're heading toward the Hasselblad lunatic
> asylum.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com
> 
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