Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I get a new camera system I don't trade for it. I just get it. After Nikon and Rolleiflex I got into Hasselblad. Then Leica. I didn't trade for them I just got them. I had to save up money or had a windfall. In the end I had several camera systems to use for any situation. Just like any other photographer I ever knew. Who had a fraction of the gear that the rich guy photo enthusiasts I knew had. I'm not a trader. I'm a user. I buy camera with money not other cameras. On 6/10/15 1:46 PM, "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/