Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] epson digital RF report pages
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:19:39 -0700
References: <p0510030dbc76479b132b@[10.0.1.3]> <738E1878-7380-11D8-B891-0003936CAC22@sbcglobal.net>

You have missed the key point, I do not want an SLR, I want a 
viewfinder/rangefinder camera.

John Collier

On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Matthew Powell wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>> If they charge $6000 or more for it, yes.
>>
>> For $2500, or probably less than $2000 street price for the RD-1, I 
>> can live with more compromises.
>
> That's the one issue that came up to me - for $2500, you can get a 
> Nikon D100 and a set of good primes. The price-point on the RD-1 would 
> have to drop quite a bit for me to see it as competitive with the 
> DSLRs. (Or be shown to really take advantage of the 'superior' Leica 
> glass.)

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In reply to: Message from Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> (RE: Re: [Leica] epson digital RF report pages)
Message from Matthew Powell <mlpowell@sbcglobal.net> (Re: [Leica] epson digital RF report pages)