Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]planning to trade in the Nikon, and buy a Q and a Sony RX1 too ? It?s time? s > On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information