Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After fifteen days on the seaside either on holidays and on my wife's final health recovery I've just come back home and I'm reading my two weeks mails. I think that the R9 subject is fascinating. I honestly and humbly can contribute as I'm a regular user of a Nikon F5 and Canon EOS 1V, and corresponding high end lenses, and a month ago, of of a Leica R8. Perhaps is too soon for writing down a complete comparation which with no doubt I'll publish in my web site as soon as my wife will be completely recovered (two or three weeks). I've done some tests of Vario Elmar and Nikon zooms too. But generally speaking, with no flame desire, R8 is built at highest quality level I've ever seen in any SLR, his finder is by far the best and handling, I've got truly big hands, is fine. Shooting on the hiperfocal basis and aperture priority metering is a true pleasure. And the output, and I have not yet any APO tele or the new 21-35 Vario Elmar, is at the level of the above mentioned cameras with their 28-70mm f1:2.8 zooms, just if you shoot at f1:8, which, by the way, I habitually do. I've previously shooted with a Contax RTSIII and I wasn´t so comfortable as with the R8. But If I need shoot in a hurry, if I do not get enough time to "think" my pictures I do prefer any of y japan SLR. In general my EOS and L lenses are not so far from Leica output. I agree with BD judgements that Leica R is not a modern camera but it is not a bad camera. In fact I am in love with my R8 after a first unsuccesfully try. But just if I was a pro...BTW a german magazin in september issue does "publish" the next arrival of R8. Just few months after my R8 purchasing! Bad luck. Kind regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html