[Leica] The Q Leica

[Steve Barbour]

planning to trade in the Nikon, and buy a Q and a Sony RX1 too ?

It’s time…

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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So you’re gonna buy one I take it?
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> That way you will finally have some hands on experience with the digital Leicas of which you know so much already.
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:48, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On 6/10/15 11:02 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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