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Subject: [Leica] So, did the price of DMR's just plummet? If so, I might be tempted to buy another one.
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:34:33 -0700
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Longer TS lenses are great for product shots and such, and become more 
significant the larger the sensor (or film) gets.

Henning



On 2012-09-17, at 9:10 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Isn't 120 TS similar to 90mm on the 35mm? I thought the most useful TS are
> on the short end (for architecture)?
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
> archiphoto.com>wrote:
> 
>> No 'new' lenses, just some announcements on formerly announced lenses, and
>> a rebadged Schneider TS.
>> 
>> The S upgrade seems to be mainly upgraded processing power.
>> 
>> Henning
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012-09-17, at 7:51 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes on the new S, but they are not giving many details, as to what is
>> changed.  A couple of new lenses though which is good news.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gene
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:17:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] So, did the price of DMR's just plummet? If so, I
>> might be tempted to buy another one.
>>> 
>>> Locally at least some dealers have been instructed to buy used R lenses
>>> again for the last few weeks. I think you missed the boat on cheap R
>> lenses
>>> some time back anyway (with the Canon option)
>>> Probably you wouldn't buy one just to use a couple of short R lenses,
>>> Vick???
>>> But what about those folks with a cupboard full of the magnificent long
>>> APO Summicron Rs etc?'
>>> My initial impression is that M shooters with a lot of M lenses and still
>>> some of the top line R ones might find this attractive? I bet that Leica
>>> sells all of the M's they can make but only a handful of the R stuff for
>>> them though.
>>> Starting from scratch it wouldn't make sense to buy into this system. The
>>> full frame Nikons (or Canon I guess?) with dedicated AF lenses make more
>>> sense for most folks... but then Leica enthusiasts aren't most folks ;-)
>>> Interesting that all but one R lens owner I know so far is not overly
>>> impressed.
>>> 
>>> Back in 2009 when I was in Germany, Stefan Daniel said there would be no
>>> R10 or conventional dSLR from them but there would be a means to use R
>>> lenses, Still true.
>>> 
>>> Anyone else notice the new S as well????
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 18 September 2012 10:34, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So, did the price of DMR's just plummet?  If so, I might be tempted to
>> buy
>>>> another one.
>>>> 
>>>> And, the price of R lenses that overlap the M range, did they just
>> plummet
>>>> too?
>>>> 
>>>> ergo, why would you want the 80/1.4 when the 75/1.4 can now be focused
>>>> accurately with Live View, and compensated for any focus shift?
>>>> 
>>>> ....idle thoughts when I should be doing homework....
>>>> 
>>>> Vick
>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Henning Wulff
>> henningw at archiphoto.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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Henning Wulff
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Replies: Reply from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] So, did the price of DMR's just plummet? If so, I might be tempted to buy another one.)
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