Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And why do you assume the electronics are above average, and what makes you assume that the glass is "way above average?" (The design IS really neat. :-)) Yes, Leica designed and made the lens - for a digital point and shoot. All else is PR hype. ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:27 AM To: leica-users Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digilux 2 short hands-on test On 3/4/04 6:39 AM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > Please, Mark - you are too damn smart, and too insightful, to write, > much less, believe your first couple of paragraphs. Leica aspirations? > As in photosocial climbing? Sure it has Leica aspirations - it's meant > to look like a Leica M. But it's not a Leica M - if this review is to > be believed at all, it's an Olympus C5060 in Leica drag. > > And btw - I am NOT trying to make any sort of case for the Olympus - I > am simply saying that it's pretty insane to pay $1800 for a name and a > set of features that apparently don't produce any better images than a > camera that costs about 1/3 as much. > > B. D. > I'm betting the Dig 2 will give superior results from most point and shoot dig's because of above average electronics, way above average glass possibly the pinnacle of glass and way above average design. But we have to wait until the camera comes out and someone can print comparisons A3's and other sized prints and also see what they look like when put up in a monitor and compared but then dealt with for web and uploading use (jpeged at lowest compression (least loss)) and then compared again. But then again as I see on a chart on a Calumet catalog I just got in the mail it is by for the heaviest borderline point and shoot in its class out of I think about 18 cameras on a two page spread. Some of those cameras where the hinged battle star galaxtica spaceship style which should be heavier than normally shaped point and shoots buy some margin. The dig 2 seems to be heavier that those as well. It's the glass I'm sure. Like a Noctilux permanently mounted on a point and shoot. A Noctilux which zooms. If I can possible afford it I give Leica the benefit of the doubt because it is my main film cameras system and therefore I'm invested heavily in it. I have faith in the company and would like to help support it. It is bravely going digital against all odds. I like those guys. And the Digilux II is one gorgous camera which has a Leica look but Jonathan Eastland tells me not a Leica feel. He may have a PDF on my site about that soon. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland, Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/ - -- 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