Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Skip to a year and a half from now. > The Digital back would have been out awhile and gone down in price. > Part of the reason would have been that the digital body had come out and > had proved itself to be pretty sweet. All that Leica R glass out there for > chump change to put on it. The prices going up again as the Leica R system > having proved itself digitally was grabbing a bigger share of it's mini > market. > Plus the Leica Digital M will give us a high price alternative to the Epson > R2D2 out by then. The Leica M glass lineup would have been tested tried and > true for digital use. > > What kind of a quandary are we going to be in maybe none? Ted and Tina and > Henning having gone digital with Canon. Others and myself with our Nikons. > All these magic silently focusing plasticy wonders of glass! Just short of > true Leica magic... Will we be able to part with them? Will we want to trade > them in and regain the true meaning of our basic Leicaness? > Tune in then and fine out. > > I think some of this silent wave Nikon glass I've got will retain a lot of > it's value and really be able to sell for something. The question is will I > want to sell the stuff and migrate to a new system? Leica R would be new to > me. Leica M is existing and by the way I've been shooting like crazy Leica > style as I've been loving my new 40 Summicron. Film is expensive but fun! > But color and mono c41! Having your whole roll scanned during processing is > mainly a great thing but has it's drawbacks other than financial. I walked > several miles with my M6 and 40 with very new Cosina Voigtl?nder finder > tonight. That lens is so light with finder it makes for a compact > lightweight package on my M6. Fits right into a nice bag I've got with my > wallet, keys and a box of 4x5's. > > I probably won't be selling off Nikon stuff in a year and a half from now > when I predict Leica has established a firm foothold into digital serious > photography. Integrating digital bodies into both it's R and M systems. I'll > have to summon up the cash from elsewhere. > Eaaaarrrrn it. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > Well one could buy all these dumped M and R,s from those who stampeded to Epson and Cannon and sell it back to the confused souls later. best simon jessurun amsterdam the netherlands