Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy Well put. One of the problems with the current RF market is indeed the lack of inexpensive, yet reasonably high quality, cameras. I got my start using a Canon FTb with a 50/1.8 lens which cost ~$175 new. It was simple, solid, fully manual, fully mechanical and ergonomic. And it focussed using a split screen. This early experience has kept a soft spot in my heart for such cameras and in fact when this camera got 'replaced' in the late 1980s with an EOS (after being stolen), the feel of plastic and a cheap zoom was never the same. Now that I finally can afford an M6 and a few lenses, this is what I use for about 85% of my photos. The problem with the overall market is that there is a general lack of entry level RF cameras. IMHO Leica desperately needs something that can serve as an entry level body and lens set and that people can then 'move up' into an M6 and fast glass. The new group of Japanese RF cameras generate interest and make the market stronger. Leica has as good as a brand name as one can get, what it needs is a way to expand the market, so it can sell its latest generation of asph lenses. Jonathan Borden > > The Yasuhara is a sincere attempt to create a modern leica screw > mount camera at an affordable price by a minute manufacturer > who cannot easily hope to recover his costs, he neccersarily has > to cut corners. I will be surprised if the camera is ever a > success and this ispart of what makes it 'interesting', not > neccersarily 'good' and certainly not better than a Leica, but nowhere > near 'crap'. >