Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/08

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Subject: [Leica] why users love it
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Thu Mar 8 17:33:56 2007
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George

1300 for the D200 Nikon, 4800 for an M8. The Nikon seems to do quite 
well for itself. Why not compare the M8 with something in the same price 
range?

Walt

Lottermoser George wrote:
> Could be the lens. However, both are obviously stopped down. I do 
> believe that in reality it's a combination of lens, sensor, in camera 
> software - the whole deal - and if I had a point - that would be it. 
> The M8 system competes superbly with the best of the pro systems at 
> producing clean, sharp, finely detailed digital files. And for M 
> lovers, in a digital world, that's a very good thing.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Leonard Taupier wrote:
>
>> Pretty interesting, George. No comparison. But I think the comparison 
>> is more the 50 1.4 Nikkor vs the Summicron. We know the M8 is 
>> sharper, but shouldn't be that much.
>
>
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