Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >