Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/25

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Subject: [Leica] x-100 and Marks comments
From: scottgregory at mac.com (Scott Gregory)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:51:54 -0500
References: <CCD7CF3A.26A94%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark I have a friend in my city of London who uses an X100 for street 
photography as well as a lot of family shots as he has a 4 month old Son. 
The quality of the photos he gets is amazing and I've seen his prints framed 
as well which are amazing, especially in black and white. It's certainly a 
nice sized camera to carry around and does turn heads for sure. 

On 2012-11-25, at 1:35 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Its a nice camera the X100 ... pardon me please for hitting too hard the
> point and it being a "quality" camera or not. Semantics.
> Its a great camera for the person who owns it and is getting great shots
> with it.  
> urns my head when I pass one on the street. Excellently styled. A super
> great camera for the money is my opinion. And a bit of a milestone.
> 
> Just bad timing as it was followed so closely by the full frame RX1 so the
> honeymoon would have been shortened a bit on its stance on the total 
> playing
> field.
> That's my opinion. And I think it will reflect many others. Or I'll find 
> out
> sooner or not. I just call it as I see it. Sometimes I'm wrong. But I'm
> happy about how often I'm right my position is having done serious  and
> professional photography for many decades my first darkroom in the mid 
> '60s.
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
>> From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:34:14 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
>> 
>> Maybe I've bonded with my X100 because I don't have an M9.  My bank 
>> account
>> and I can see where this is going.
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>> 
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
>> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 11:35 pm
>> 
>> 
>> I have never really bonded with my X100, at high ASA it beats my M9 but in
>> good light there is no comparison as far as I am concerned - this is from
>> experience rather than reading web sites, unlike some ;-)
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> So, how many images have you made with the X100 since you know so much 
>> about
>> it?
>> 
>> Looking in my LR catalog, I see 1497 X100 images. Many of them are in poor
>> light, and I would put them against an M9 any time.
>> 
>> I am going to Paris for a couple of days on Tuesday, and because I need to
>> travel ultra-light, I am taking just the X100. I am sacrificing some
>> versatility wrt. focal length by doing so, but I am NOT sacrificing any 
>> image
>> quality.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>> The 800 dollar camera is in sync with the fact that its sensor is half
>>> the size of the RX1.
>>> This is the Leica list and we're talking about a high quality camera.
>>> Its not a smaller then necessary format camera selling for the price
>>> of a Leica lens shade.
>>> The Rollei 35 and Olympus XA really could give your SLR quality.
>>> If they were half frame cameras they could not.
>>> The Fuji is a half frame in effect digital camera.
>>> "quality" is not why your buying the camera unless your comparing it
>>> against junk point and shoots.
>>> And my apologies to those who bought the camera thinking you were
>>> buying a piece of top pro gear. But it would not take a genius to
>>> figure out a full frame compact was in the wings. And yes they cost real
>>> money.
>>> 
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> Photography
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
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