[Leica] KONOST CAMERA

[Gerry Walden]

Lluis, Ted and others,

As you know I have now moved back to Leica with an M9 and M7, more of which I will come to.

To me the Konost offers very little (if anything) which is not covered by the Fuji X-Pro cameras, especially now that the X-Pro2 is available. The only plus point is that it is full frame, but it has the disadvantage of needing pretty expensive lenses whether you go down the Leica route or some other that makes M-mount lenses. This point in my opinion is going to rule it out for virtually all buyers.

The main point is that IT IS NOT A LEICA, and it never will be. there is something very special about using Leica equipment and why I have moved back to it. Don’t get me wrong, the X-Pro series is a damned good series with excellent lenses, and the Konost may be damned good too. All I know is that when I shot with Fuji about half of my submissions to Alamy failed, and none have failed since switching to Leica. Also with Fuji I had to accept an optical viewfinder with frame lines which had no sense of reality. I had to use different settings with Lightroom than any other camera I have ever used. And to top it all my resale value plummeted like a stone.

The Konost may well suffer from all of the above, but even if it doesn’t it will never have that certain something which says LEICA!

Gerry

> On 5 Apr 2016, at 01:23, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gerry,
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> It looks it will be a camera working like a Leica, the rumors say that prices could be under 50% of Leica, this camera has an advanced feature, the viewfinder is optical but the rangefinder and parallax correction are digital, I suppose this will give more precision and framing than the usual viewfinders on Leica based on the technologies from the 50’s.
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> Wait and see…
> Lluis
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>> El 4 abr 2016, a les 20:43, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> va escriure:
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>> Lluis
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>> One simple question - would you use one?
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>> Gerry
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>>> On 4 Apr 2016, at 16:40, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> This looks very interesting and could be a serious concurrence for Leica
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>>> <http://konost.com>
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>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
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