Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Waiting but not long
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:32:55 -0400

I meant Fiji the drinking water company.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Raimo K <raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:40:12 +0300
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Waiting but not long
> 
> Yeah, you'll always need an adapter, probably.
> All the best!
> Raimo K
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sonny Carter
> To: Leica Users Group
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Waiting but not long
> 
> 
> My prediction:  You'll NEVER see an M lens compatible camera from Fuji.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> If I was asked I'd suggest someone who had access to 6 grand and a huge
>> interest in doing photography  with an appreciation towards working with a
>> rangefinder system rather than a reflex system to wait.
>> The M9 is a great camera. A solid one. But its a first out full frame
>> digital camera from Leica. Certainly they got some of the beginning bugs
>> out
>> with their development of the M8. But the M9 has a bit of a fledgling
>> issue
>> to it yet. Its totally understandable. Its a very new thing for Leica a
>> company making since 1925 camera whose insides looked like clocks not
>> radios.
>> I predict the M9.1 will come out real soon and it will be mainly a sensor
>> upgrade and it will be significant. People will not be doing their night
>> shots with a Canon any more.
>> 
>> When that happens I'll be real pissed off I don't really have access to
>> six
>> grand. As I do have the Leica glass to put it front of it . So I'll have
>> to
>> figure something out.
>> I do know one thing for sure.
>> Should I unload my Leica M glass this week then firs thing next week,
>> Monday, Fuji or Cosina or somebody will make the announcement of a full
>> frame Leica M mount compatible rangefinder camera costing two or three
>> grand. Consumer priced in other worlds. And within my grasp.
>> 
>> So its like an umbrella. If you want it to rain you leave it at home.
>> Or a camera. If you want rainbows and spaceships leave it at home.
>> I keep mine with me to make sure nothing to usually happens. And its a
>> DSLR.
>> And its not light nor small.
>> 
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
> 
> 
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