Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You make sense, Peter. Such defusing of posturing hot air has no place on the Internet! ;^) Ric On Dec 10, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Peter Klein wrote: > Leica never said any such thing. But there is a body of Internet > noise out there, to the effect that unless the M8 was significantly > superior to the 5D or IDS Mk II in all aspects, especially ISO 1600 > and 3200 noise performance, that the M8 and Leica did not deserve > to exist, and should deservedly go down in flames to the derision > of digiterati everywhere. > > If this is the case, why are Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, etc. > allowed to exist? > > The whole idea is, quite frankly, bovine effluent. It's a > combination of anti-Leica reverse-elitism and the hegemony of Canon > marketing. Whether the M8 is suitable for one's style of > photography or too expensive for your budget is another matter. > But a rangefinder is not an SLR, the Canon look is not the be-all > and end-all of aesthetics, and a camera optimized for resolution > with a body of existing, wonderful optics deserves better than it's > been getting in some quarters. > > If the M8 were being marketed as an all-around picture-taking tool > for the masses, such comparisons might carry a bit more weight. > But there are reasons to take a small, light, nimble camera with > fast lenses that focus where *you* tell them to, over much bigger, > heavier, (acoustically) noisier machines that don't do wide angles > so well. > > Canons are fine machines. So is the M8, for different reasons. If > people want to talk about the relative merits of various design > choices with respect to various kinds of photography, fine. But > this "Leica should die because the 5D has less noise at ISO 3200" > is just plain dumb. > > --Peter > >> As far as I know Leica made no such claim. I think this was a >> wish of some one hee ar on another list. >> >> Gene >> >> >> -------------- Original message from "Robert Jagitsch" >> <robert.jagitsch@gmail.com>: -------------- >> >> >> > Lastly, I would like to see where the factory claimed that ISO 2500 >> > performance would be equal to Canon 5D performance at ISO 3200. >> What >> > did the factory claim, can someone point me to it? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information