Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/25

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Subject: [Leica] Frank Van Ripper's Love Note to Leica-
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 19:19:52 -0400

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/index.htm

The Washington Post's photo columnist waxes eloquent over the MP...

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Gary
Williams
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:04 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)


Subject: RE: [Leica] Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)


> That's true - in terms of supporting the user base. Of course the 
> question is - how much of the user base, having invested in the glass 
> and the bodies, can afford to pay such an extraordinarily high price 
> for a digital add-on - to only the R8-R9s...don't forget, buy doing 
> this, they will NOT be support the user base with all the earlier 
> reflexes - YOU folks would have to pay, what $1600-2000 on TOP of the 
> cost of the back? So you'd be paying almost $10K for a digital 35 mm 
> camera that isn't full-frame, when you can get an amazingly good Canon

> 10D for...$1500? Is that really supporting the user base?

The $7.5K price tag for the RD is still a rumor---like the RD itself.
And as for supporting its base, there are limits to how far back one can
go.

RD or not, with my resources if I were burning up to get into R digital,
no question I would get a Canon 10D for $1500 and a Novoflex EOS-R
adapter. But I'm ok for now--when I can stop laughing about the Contax
ND.  I just
found one on-line in EX++ condition for $3495.   Whew, it was $6999 not
too
long ago.  It does not pay to be on the bleeding edge.

Gary

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