[Leica] DMR wins award

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

It's hardly fair, Henning, to compare the DMR at $7900 - cost of a back
and front ;-) - with a Digital Rebel at $800 or $900. If you want to do
comparisons, compare the DMR with the Canon EOS1DMkII or 1DsMkII.
Obviously the DMR is going to still win, simply because the R has such a
gorgeous viewfinder, but the comparison isn't going to be nearly as
odious. Likewise, if you want to look at Olympus, look a the E1, not the
E300. Again, the DMR will win on viewfinder, but it won't be quite as
much of a trounce.

Meanwhile,looking at the present cost of the DMR and an R9, that little
combo is now dead even with the full frame, full featured, autofocus,
Canon EOS1DsMkII. Which also mounts Leica manual focus lenses. 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Henning Wulff
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:22 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR wins award


At 7:20 AM +1100 3/8/05, Rick Dykstra wrote:
>Saw this on another list.  The DMR won an award from the Digital
>Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA).  Not exactly sure but I think 
>the category was 'Digital Back for Professional 35mm Camera that can 
>still use film'.  Slam dunked the competition!  Still, well done 
>Leica.  It looks like the DMR is just around the corner.
>
>http://www.photoworkshop.com/double_exposure/publish/LeicaWinsAwards.sh
>tml
>
>What really got my attention at the same site though is the new
>Digital Rebel with 8 lotsapixies.  One view would be that other 
>brands' entry level consumer grade lightweight plastic SLRs are 
>close to out-gunning the DMR, for less than a quarter the cost.  I 
>expect that everyone who buys a DMR will be convinced that it offers 
>more.  Hmm ....
>
>Rick.

See the first section of:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-mar-05.shtml

IMO the viewfinder is the worst thing about the 20D, and the DRebel 
was worse. To go even further down that path may be cheaper, but how 
far can you go and still have an idea of what you're shooting?

Not to say that the DRebel isn't a better solution for most people 
than the DMR, but the R-DMR solution certainly offers things that the 
competition isn't covering.

One of the things I like best about the Leica M's is their 
viewfinder, and therefore to see the devolution of this important (to 
people who take 'seeing' seriously) item to something like an EVF or 
the viewfinder on the new Rebel or Olympus E-300 seems grotesque.

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