[Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Richard,

The D200 is like the F3HP. It's a camera I very much like, but will
never fall in love with. I own Nikon because it's functional. But I
don't have the passion for it that I do for Leica. 

I never was really anticipating a digital M. But now that it's here I
very much want one.  IMHO, when it comes to lens signatures Leica is
"John Hancock". Everything else is chicken scratch. :-)

Very nice photograph, btw. If I were the groom I might be a little
nervous, though. I can almost hear her whisper, "After we're married if
you ever think about spending that much money on a camera just remember
this name.....Joey Buttafuco!"  

daveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:richard-lists@imagecraft.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:23 AM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?

So I got tired of all these talks about the barely functional M8 and
picked 
up a real camera, a Nikon D200 with the legendary 50/1.4 AIS lens. With
a 
1.5 crop factor, it makes a nice portrait lens: 
http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/_EPS1973.jpg You can see the

classic signature of the lens quite clearly.


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