Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re: P&S cameras
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Sep 26 10:21:50 2006
References: <200609261530.k8QFU6SZ095395@server1.waverley.reid.org> <FEE5797F-5F2F-4FCF-A3FD-CC76242B8E06@optonline.net>

Larry,
The trick is that it was $50 45 years ago.  Mercedes were in the $4000 range
and you could buy a nice suburban home for $18,000.  Now, $18000 won't buy
you a bathroom.  :)

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 9/26/06, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:30 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
>
> > Interesting. Quite a big sensor for such a camera. Knowing Sigma it
> > won't be expensive as the way overpriced Ricoh GR-D, and probably
> > much faster in cardwriting speed, too. I would not hesitate to buy
> > this one for my alpine hikes where 28mm is my preferred FL, but all
> > this camera unfortunately misses is an accessory shoe for adding a
> > 28mm finder (CV or other).
> > Didier
> >
> >
> >
> >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092604sigmadp1.asp
> >> -------------------------------------
> >> regards, mehrdad
> >
>
>
> I am disappointed that most of the new high quality fixed focal lens
> P&S cameras, Ricoh, Fuji, and now Sigma, don't include an eye level
> viewer. These are basically grab shot cameras. There is a qualitative
> difference in simply being able to bring the camera to your eye and
> snap a picture and being required to hold the camera a foot or so
> away to compose the shot on a LCD finder. Its the difference between
> a Leica and an SLR. I know - aftermarket finders can be attached to
> most of them but these make it difficult to slip in and out of a
> pocket. How hard would it be to include an eye level finder? They
> don't take much space and are cheap to make. My old Olympus Pen 1/2
> frame camera (not the SLR) had a very decent finder and the whole
> camera cost only $50 new.
>
> Larry Z
>
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Replies: Reply from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Re: P&S cameras)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: P&S cameras)