Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So you?re gonna buy one I take it? That way you will finally have some hands on experience with the digital Leicas of which you know so much already. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:48, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I'm thinking if you made a 13x19 inch print with your M and hung another > one > same size right next to it made with the also full frame Q the quality > would > very possibly not be at all lacking when you are looking at those two > prints > side to side. You might just be looking at matching image quality. > Leica won't sell lenes as a result of a Q sale but those puppies will fly > out the Am Leitz Park faster than the M's. Soon everybody will have one in > their coat pocket. Problem is summer is upon us. > > > On 6/10/15 11:02 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> The Q Leica is out and I'm excited. >> Its a direct response to the full frame Sony DSC-RX1 compact rangefinder >> camera which came out September 12, 2012 and didn't create a new market >> niche as I thought it would. It has stood alone. One thing hipster camera >> buyers really don't care about is the bottom line image quality so they >> revert to cropped $999 formats a thing I'll do when the camera can be >> worn >> as a tie clip. And go off by itself when I wink my left eye. >> The new Q is very much like the RX1 in that the lens is an all out assault >> taking no prisoners approach with compactness not being one of the first >> parameters oddly enough on a compact camera. So it becomes quite an effete >> item with this amazing chuck of glass on the front of it making for a much >> bigger pocket you'd get to slide it in. I'd have done the opposite and >> put a >> collapsible 3.5 on the front of it or 2.8 like on Rollie 35. And not have >> it >> be a mini monster. The point of the camera is that its with you . Taking >> better pix by far than your cell phone. >> Selling for 4 and quarter grand $ if it slows down sales on M's Leica >> won't >> be loosing any money. >> I'd kill for one. If there's a dead body on the sidewalk with a Q missing >> you'll know I did it. If you buy one I'd walk on well lit streets in >> public >> places. And put a blonde mustache on your glasses nose. >> >> With big drum rolls Leica in the past years introduced a couple of camera >> systems which they said would put a dent in what pros used for their >> photography. They were not a response to the Sony RX1. The Sony RX1 could >> take them to the cleaners as these were cropped cameras and no one thinks >> the results we get from an M or a DSLR is going to be threatened by a >> cropped camera. Its apples and oranges. Or as the French say Apples and >> Pears.... In this cropped camera cast aluminum with an iPhone interface. >> The Q will be a camera which will made with results not overshadowed by >> the >> M system just like a Rollei 35 did against any full sized 35mm camera. >> Why? >> The format was the same. Plus Zeiss glass. Just don't jerk the camera when >> you take the picture. >> Leica was in no hurry to do this. As its taken years. I think they know >> now >> for sure they're in this for the long haul. >> But doing it is a smart move became if there is a company which is making >> a >> compact full frame rangefinder top quality competitive to full sized >> cameras >> it should be Leica. Leica is the company which invented quality compact >> photography. It should not be the company which finds it ill advised as we >> mustn't compete with ourselves. >> >> By the way I just read the whole time the Sony has been out which is >> almost >> 3 years no firmware fixes to some quirky issues. >> BAD Sony! >> Lets see if they respond to Leica. Or if any body else does. I'd love to >> see >> a third full frame compact rangefinder in the camera store. >> > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >