Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]3000 units at $3,000 dollars. I wonder how many they might sell for say, $2,000, especially if it included a starter lens (maybe a CV 2.5P with the cute little hood). 90K units per month? No. But alot more than 3000 units. What if these were fondleable at camera stores. Hell, I can fondle an RZ67 or a Contax G2 at the downtown Ritz here in DC. Again, alot more than 3000 units. I too hope theres's an R2D2, but I also hope they actually try to sell some of the darn things. Scott Mark Rabiner wrote: >On 4/15/05 10:26 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> typed: > > > >>This review corresponds very well to my impression when I had a chance >>to play with Tom's R-D1 at last fall's Photokina. I also found the need >>to cock the shutter by hand a useless anachronism; in a Leica M it is a >>different story, but on a digital camera it is hard to accept. >> >> >> >You wonder if they took the camera for one single trial run before they >released it. >The IDEA of a thumb thing which has a verisimilitude to shooting film for >the shooter kind of sounds good if you were at the meeting when it was >brought it. >But you'd find out later when you went out with the first prototype for a >spin around the block how bad that bright idea feels. >Spells accelerated R&D to me. > >The thumb lever is the biggest reason I'm not getting the camera. >It's just an insult to the useres intelligence. > >The R2D2 will have a silent micromoter like the majority of cameras being >used today. And plenty of cameras where you grab the shutter speed dial and >f stops on the lens. >I sure hope there is an R2D2. >I'm sure they'd get it right the second time. >This first camera with all it's flaws has gotten a tremendous reception and >has attracted huge attention. Although the shocking number "3000" came up >last week as the total amount sold. >If that's close to being true it makes the whole thing a public relations >labor of love certainly not a money making business venture. >Which lots of niche market stuff is anyway. > >Epson should have a thing where you connect a wire from your Epson printer >to your Epson camera and it just prints all the pictures like is being done >today all over the place. Tweak them on a little screen maybe. I'd love >that. Photoshop less images. What an idea! >Raw in the opposite sense. >But have a big crank on the side to emulate a mimeograph machine! > >I guess I'ts an enlarger you want to emulate though. >Or a line of trays. > > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >