Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom Lianza wrote: > At the risk of being flamed and angering a few on this group, I'd strongly > advise against the R8. I own one and occasionally use it, but frankly, for > me, it just doesn't work. The vaunted ergonomics just don't seem to be > there. Put a 180mm f2.8 lens on that body and hang it around your neck and > you might as well have a Rollei 6000 series SLR hanging on your neck. I was, and I'm strongly tempted, to get an R8. It's higher sync capability is something that was missing, but I suspected Leica waited too long to bring that feature to the market place. Flashfill has been a mainstay for nearly three decades in commercial photography, a time that lost a whole generation of possible users to them. My R system is now reduced to an R6, with three lenses. Coincidentally, when I recently pondered my purchase of an R8, I ran it by a photo editor, who's also a photographer, during lunch a few weeks ago. We went over what I use for my shoots. Since I consistently use 120, it didn't take much to recognize that I needed to beef up my lens inventory for my Rollei 6003. I wound up buying a PQ 60mm Distagon. It cost more than the R8, but it's a system that makes money. Whereas with the Leica, in not having been able to integrate it into my commercial work, has been relegated to being a personal work camera. That is not bad in and of itself, as my personal work is a key driving factor that clients use when they decide to use my services. Slobodan Dimitrov - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html