Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] D700
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:59:44 -0500
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Gene,

Have you looked at the Sony A900? Extremely good 24 mp sensor with an
astoundingly good viewfinder which reminds me of the great finders on
the Nikon F et al/Leica SL and SL2. Great camera although not cheap,
except by Leica standards. ;-)

Jim Laird

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:55 PM,  <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Already tried Canon with R glass and was underwhelmed. ?Don't care for 
> Sony DSLRs, even less as I don't care for canon DSLRs. ?I'll take DMR with 
> R glass anyway over the alternatives.
>
> Cheers,
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 1:20:09 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] D700
>
> Some guy on the GETDIP showed some pictures with a 900+ Leica R glass. Of
> course they are only web JPG so you can't really tell, but they look good
> and the person likes the combo.
>
> Someone should really compare these combos (DMR vs. A900+R vs. Canikon + R)
> for the poor suffering R glass users :-)
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
>
>> > I was thinking more like a Sony A900 with some Zeiss primes . . .
>> > actually . . .
>> >
>> > Marty
>>
>> Has anyone tried the Sony especially with re-mounted leica glass? I'm
>> tempted, but there are quite a few "downsides" etc to consider.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> alastair
>>
>>
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