SORRY! Re: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Damn, you beat me to it :-)
Was preparing my Photokina report for tomorrow...



Op 30-sep-06, om 23:00 heeft Nathan Wajsman het volgende geschreven:

> OK--having just fondled today, I will bite. What Henning, Tom and  
> Ted have said is true: this feel every bit like a real M. Leica's  
> marketing tagline ("Ein echte M") is true. I do not really have  
> much to add except this tidbit: I asked the guy at the Leica booth  
> about the lens coding, specifically whether it had any impact on  
> the RAW image. He was not sure, so he asked one of his colleagues  
> (in German), and the answer was yes. According to Leica, even in  
> RAW mode the vignetting correction is applied.
>
> Other than that, Leica's booth is much nicer than at previous  
> Photokinas; it is better laid out, with more space to move around,  
> so that the people crunch that often made Photokina a less than  
> pleasant experience was alleviated. The same was true of several  
> other vendors.
>
> I think this is the best Photokina for Leica since I started  
> attending the show in 1998.
>
> Nathan
>
> On 26-sep-2006, at 21:14, Don Dory wrote:
>
>> Richard,
>> We will have ten or so LUGGERs in Koln in about three days  
>> fondling the M8
>> at the Leica booth.  Hopefully some of us will have computer  
>> access so that
>> we can torment the rest of the LUG.  :)
>>
>> My bet is on Nathan, or Douglas, or Didier as they can easily  
>> bring their
>> laptop and can sip some Kaffe while they tempt the rest of you  
>> from just
>> outside the convention hall.  :)
>>
>> Don
>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 9/26/06, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, at 4:23AM (see time stamp?), my mind starts to wander.  
>>> Just pulling
>>> yer collective legs ala Kyle. It's just a shot with the Epson R- 
>>> D1 with
>>> the
>>> pedestrian but sharp as heck current Summicron.
>>>
>>> I almost did tempt to get a Nikon new black S3, the whole thing  
>>> with the
>>> new 50/1.4 lens is cheaper than a Leica 50/1.4 ASPH lens... only  
>>> if I have
>>> the $$$ :-)
>>>
>>> We not return to the scheduled collective drooling until the  
>>> first LUGger
>>> gets the M8 so we can start really salivating.
>>>
>>> At 04:23 AM 9/26/2006, Richard wrote:
>>>
>>> >So I got tired of all these talks about the barely functional M8  
>>> and
>>> >picked up a real camera, a Nikon D200 with the legendary 50/1.4  
>>> AIS lens.
>>> >With a 1.5 crop factor, it makes a nice portrait lens:
>>> >http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/_EPS1973.jpg You can  
>>> see the
>>> >classic signature of the lens quite clearly.
>>>
>>> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me  
>>> directly, please
>>> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>>>
>>>
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