Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Frank Van Ripper's Love Note to Leica-
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:57:59 -0400

;-)

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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 Bob Adler
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 9:52 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Frank Van Ripper's Love Note to Leica- 


Though superficial and technically vacuous, I enjoyed
the article. Thanks for posting B.D.
Bob
- --- bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/index.htm
> 
> The Washington Post's photo columnist waxes eloquent
> over the MP...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
rgacpa@pacbell.net
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