Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If there was somebody I really hated who I though was a real idiot who sociopathicly harmed people I would advise them to go out and and spend money on a Leica M8. Not a friend. Not an acquaintance. Not somebody I'd like to not cross the street way before they came up to me. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:51:10 +0000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon > > There are some one-owner M8s appearing on Fridays here and M9s for <$4K but > sadly nothing other than those and the Ricoh A12 cope with wide angle Leica > lenses very well. > > john > ________________________________________ > > > Spending two grand on a six year old cropped sensor is blatantly foolish > even if it wasn't almost guaranteed trouble. > I tried to buy it when it first came out I had the money I'd just sold my > house. But they delayed it. Then they re did it . Then they fixed more > stuff. They were handing out expensive filters for your glass then they > stopped doing it. > To anybody getting good results with your old M8 I say more power to you. > But there's not 6 year old digital camera out there which is worth a > quarter > of that kind of money even a full frame one. I'm afraid Leicas first out > digital M is no exception. The M9 however should retain much more of its > value. Its a camera to take much more seriously. Unfortunately priced as > such. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > >> >> Wouldn't a sub-$2K M8 make more sense for the Leica glass? Larger sensor >> than >> X2 or Canon M..... >> >> john >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> When that full frame mirrorless comes out with a Leica M adaptor I'll >> really >> be looking at it as of course I'd like to get my Leica glass going again >> and >> I need a price point way lower than Leica is about to give me. >> >> But I'm looking long and hard at the Leica X2. >> The camera is simply gorgeous. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >>> >>> Aren't you the one that wanted an M10 with an optical VF? >>> >>> Frank Filippone >>> Red735i at earthlink.net >>> >>> Its a mirrorless fairly tiny body with interchangeable lenes but a >>> reasonably sized APS-C sensor. For such a tiny body I think its a very >>> reasonable sensor to body ratio. At a very reasonable price point as in >>> cheap. I like it. Looks like it would fit in most pockets and take very >>> competitive pix against DSLR cameras three times its size. I call that >>> Leica-Like. >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information