Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] Sony a7 and a7R
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:09:22 -0700
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Well, it's all theoretical right now. You may very well be right.

Btw, landscape with tripod is a whole different ballgame. Think focus
stacking, or long exposure which is my latest thing :-)
On Oct 16, 2013 9:55 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Richard,
> If it is price, I understand, but IMHO, it is still less than optimum
> solution, IMHO Sony's native Zeiss lenses will probably be the way to
> go - they are not particularly expensive, either.
>
> I understood the problem as weight, which made no sense to me.
>
> I would also presume that if you took a Sony/Leica based system, it
> would cut your weight considerably, because you could get away with a
> lighter tripod as well. By the way, the only time I was shooting
> landscapes on my recent trip to Ladakh, I was shooting the D800E hand
> held for the most part...(-:
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Richard Man
> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> > Jayanand, when it comes to landscape photos where you are using a tripod,
> > remember that the camera is just a box to hold the sensor on one end and
> > the lens on the other. As long as the firmware does not mess up the raw
> > date too much, then you are talking about a 36MP box that cost less than
> > $3000 that takes Leica lens, It's $5000-$6000 less than an M T240 with
> more
> > pixels to boot. And when using on a tripod, any operational
> inefficiencies
> > is negligible.
> >
> > This is why I am interested in it. I have the M9 and I use it for
> > landscape, but it does leave something to desire when my other landscape
> > camera is now a 4x5 or 617. Even the Xpan is inadequate in that sense.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> > gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> So much lighter than a M9 or M240 to make a serious difference? I doubt
> it.
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Richard Man
> >> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> >> > I bet to differ. For landscape photographers that do long distance
> >> hiking,
> >> > a set of Leica M lens on a teeny body with 36MP and focus stacking may
> >> just
> >> > shake things up a bit.
> >>
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