Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] Leica T
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:02:02 +0000
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I guess it depends on if you have an M(240) or not? If you have and a few M 
lenses then the A7 is less appealing, having to buy more (and larger) FF 
lenses that duplicate what you have and will be used when? Going to a 
different system in APS-C is more complementary to the M IMO, but the T is 
costing more than I would spend to get there ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Sonny Carter

Geoff, I see it as a prettier, easier-to-use camera that does much the same 
thing as my A7r.
except the full frame
except the internal viewfinder
except the swivel screen.
except the price


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I think that everyone commenting is thinking " can I use it as a mini 
> M or a mini R10?"
> This is really not what it is for and maybe we are not its target 
> market at all. We will see how many new people take them up from the 
> iPhone generation I think.
> Kristian Dowling made a remark which really fits with my thinking on 
> this one too. It is not a cheaper M, if you get one use it with the 
> dedicated lenses. . For me that applies to the Fujifilm designs as well.
> I was thinking that they might push the X cameras out of the Leica range.
> But here the quoted price for a body and lens is nearly $5000 (no kit 
> deals).
> So they seem to have put it squarely above the X2 and below the M range?.
> I like the concept, it has some very cool features and is flat out 
> pretty...but not $5000 worth of like. What would I know, as mentioned 
> I am hardly their market. I was idly dreaming before of having this 
> one for travel and the S for studio (instead of my M and lenses).  I 
> think its now resistable.. mental note not to play with one in Wetzlar 
> soon.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 25 April 2014 23:13, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> >
> > > Wondering if it can take an R lens with an adapter?  I haven't 
> > > noticed
> > that
> > > in the reviews, but I was not reading closely.
> >
> > of course it can.
> > I already have the adapter that mount to the M adapter
> >
> > Regards,
> > George Lottermoser
> > george at imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >


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