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

[Steve Barbour]

> On Feb 24, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.




yup Mark, done, it's called the Sony A7ii,  it's fine with the Sony 55mm 1.8,  also the CV 12mm, as well as the Leica R 19mm, the  R 180mm,   and all R in between.....


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> 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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