Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/06

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Subject: [Leica] Sigma DP1 a no show.
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Thu Sep 6 09:04:18 2007
References: <82c9dd70709060813y6bb741e0q348389009680a79d@mail.gmail.com> <E7BBC686-2C6C-4050-BDE2-73CD73F266FF@nathanfoto.com>

I adore my M8. But I am not a 'travel photograher'

Just need a 'go anywhere' pocketable to replace what my Yashica T4 used to
do for me.
Hell - I might just take my Dad's T4 and film
(My T4 finally fell apart in my hands after hundreds and hundreds of rolls
of film!)

Eric



On 9/6/07, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> I would not bother with pockatable. After owning a GRD for some time,
> I finally decided that its limitations were too much for me-slow RAW
> writing speed, useless above ISO 400 (this is a general problem with
> all compacts). So I sold the GRD and bought the Olympus E410 for
> travelling light.
>
> You already have the supreme take-everywhere camera in the M8. Why
> waste money on some compact with vastly inferior performance? Take
> your M8!
>
> Nathan
>
> On 6-sep-2007, at 17:13, Eric Korenman wrote:
>
> > I will be travelling in Italy in nov.
> > I am not dragging an m8 all over the place.
> > But I would like a pocketable digital that is close to the quality
> > we all
> > expect.
> >
> > I was hoping the Sigma DP1 would have shown up by now.. but it is
> > no where
> > to be seen
> > What do LUG'ers recommend?
> > Is the C-LUX 2 up to it?
> >
> > Got to be small. I prefer fixed lens.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Eric
> >
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>
> Nathan Wajsman
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Replies: Reply from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] Sigma DP1 a no show.)
In reply to: Message from faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman) ([Leica] Sigma DP1 a no show.)
Message from nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Sigma DP1 a no show.)