[Leica] The Q Leica

[Nathan Wajsman]

So you’re gonna buy one I take it?

That way you will finally have some hands on experience with the digital Leicas of which you know so much already.

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:48, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking if you made a 13x19 inch print with your M and hung another one
> same size right next to it made with the also full frame Q the quality would
> very possibly not be at all lacking when you are looking at those two prints
> side to side.  You might just be looking at matching image quality.
> Leica won't sell lenes as a result of a Q sale but those puppies will fly
> out the Am Leitz Park faster than the M's. Soon everybody will have one in
> their coat pocket. Problem is summer is upon us.
> 
> 
> On 6/10/15 11:02 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Q Leica is out and I'm excited.
>> Its a direct response to the full frame Sony DSC-RX1  compact rangefinder
>> camera which came out September 12, 2012 and didn't create a new market
>> niche as I thought it would. It has stood alone. One thing hipster camera
>> buyers really don't care about is the bottom line image quality so they
>> revert to cropped $999 formats  a thing I'll do when the camera can be worn
>> as a tie clip. And go off by itself when I wink my left eye.
>> The new Q is very much like the RX1 in that the lens is an all out assault
>> taking no prisoners approach with compactness not being one of the first
>> parameters oddly enough on a compact camera. So it becomes quite an effete
>> item with this amazing chuck of glass on the front of it making for a much
>> bigger pocket you'd get to slide it in. I'd have done the opposite and put a
>> collapsible 3.5 on the front of it or 2.8 like on Rollie 35. And not have it
>> be a mini monster. The point of the camera is that its with you . Taking
>> better pix by far than your cell phone.
>> Selling for 4 and quarter grand $ if it slows down sales on M's Leica won't
>> be loosing any money.
>> I'd kill for one. If there's a dead body on the sidewalk with a Q missing
>> you'll know I  did it. If you buy one I'd walk on well lit streets in public
>> places. And put a blonde mustache on your glasses nose.
>> 
>> With big drum rolls Leica in the past years introduced a couple of camera
>> systems which they said would put a dent in what pros used for their
>> photography. They were not a response to the Sony RX1. The Sony RX1 could
>> take them to the cleaners as these were cropped cameras and no one thinks
>> the results we get from an M or a DSLR is going to be threatened by a
>> cropped camera. Its apples and oranges. Or as the French say Apples and
>> Pears.... In this cropped camera cast aluminum with an iPhone interface.
>> The Q will be a camera which will made with results not overshadowed by the
>> M system just like a Rollei 35 did against any full sized 35mm camera. Why?
>> The format was the same. Plus Zeiss glass. Just don't jerk the camera when
>> you take the picture.
>> Leica was in no hurry to do this. As its taken years. I think they know now
>> for sure they're in this for the long haul.
>> But doing it is a smart move became if there is a company which is making a
>> compact full frame rangefinder top quality competitive to full sized cameras
>> it should be Leica. Leica is the company which invented quality compact
>> photography. It should not be the company which finds it ill advised as we
>> mustn't compete with ourselves.
>> 
>> By the way  I just read the whole time the Sony has been out which is almost
>> 3 years no firmware fixes to some quirky issues.
>> BAD Sony!
>> Lets see if they respond to Leica. Or if any body else does. I'd love to see
>> a third full frame compact rangefinder in the camera store.
>> 
> 
> 
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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