[Leica] digital R question

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Despite my connection with Olympus, Richard, I can't say I disagree with
you about the E-1 being un-OM-like. I, too, wish that is was even
smaller. On the other hand, pick up one of the Nikon or Canon pro
cameras, and then pick up and E-1, and the difference is like that you
feel when picking up an F5 and picking up an OM4.



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Richard
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:28 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] digital R question


At 04:13 PM 11/24/2004, feli wrote:
>But frankly I don't think there is anything they could do to satisfy 
>you,
>short of coming out
>with something as advanced as a 1ds II. And then you would probably 
>complain that they
>merely matched the competition, instead of leapfrogging them. You 
>obviously think they are a bunch of idiots and are waiting for them to 
>fall flat on their face so you can say "told you so."

While I do not share B.D. un-enthusiasm toward Leica/Rs/etc., I have to
say 
that despite that the R8/R9 supposedly handle very nicely, it is
definitely 
not very, um, Leica-tradition like (what are they call, the hunchbacks
of 
Solm? :-) ) If they put the same everything into a smaller camera, I bet
it 
goes a long way toward making them more acceptable to the
traditionalists, 
myself included.

Then again, I have the exact same beef against the Oly E-1. What were
they 
thinking to make it so un-OM like :-) ? I wonder what Maitani-san is
using 
nowadays :-)

Then again and again, even the Canon dSLRs seem too big for me, so may
be I 
am just a minority of one. Oh well, keep dreaming for that mythical
Leica 
Digital M.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 

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