Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle Today must be the First of April. Right? Jerry Kyle Cassidy wrote: > I tried this about two months ago in NYC though at the time I was told it > was only a prototype not going into production. I had two problems with it: > > 1) the lens system is not compatable with any existing lens system. They > claim it's built from the ground up around their digital > > 2) the name is, if you ask me, dumb. A leica "sonnycam"? It sounds too much > like sony to me. (I can't remember what Horst said, but Sony might actually > be the company that's making the camera for Leica.) > > That said, there are a lot of positive points. They let me use it for four > days, I took about 1,200 images in both studio and street settings. The AF > is fast though the metering seems on the dark side. It's ergonomic, as I'd > expect from a product supposidly from leica (I say supposidly because only > the lens, lens mount, and camera chassis are made in germany, the "guts" are > made on an island west of hawaii which shall be nameless). I never used it > at 8 mp, I found the 4mp setting adequate for everything and the camera > shoots faster at the 4mp setting. The camera that I had came with a black > satchel with a big fuzzy red LEICA dot about four inches across on it. I > thought of cutting off the patch and claiming the satchel was shoddily made, > but I wanted Leica to keep handing me stuff, so I refrained. If you ask me, > although I'm really liking the fact that Leica has finally produced a DSLR, > the bag in and of itself would have made me happy. It's a fantastic size > with three exterior compartments, lightly padded, but heavily padded on the > bottom and with a rigid bottom so that it stays upright if you drop it on > the ground. There's also an "M POCKET" (it actually says MPOCKET" on the > inside) that fits a leica M with a cut away for a lens to stick out. VERY > CLEVER! The sticker price is, well, appropriately high. I believe the street > price was $14,000, figure a street price of a little more than half that > plus expensive lenses.... Ouch! > > The D-Leica has a firewire connection and takes the same compact flash cards > I'd been using in my N____. So no complaints there. > > I know some other luggers have seen and used this camera, so I'm interested > in hearing what they have to say.... > > Kyle > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html