Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Inconvenient truth is the M is inconveniently expensive for me too which makes it inconveniently absent. I'd rather the world was a different place. With me sitting on top of it. With a Leica M9. I already have the glass. The R10 would cost another couple of grand more than the M9 Leica had said so if that magically did actually come to pass as a holiday surprise stocking stuffer it would present little competition for Leitax. As few to no people would buy them for 10 grand. They would fill a corner of the warehouse containing all the unsold R8's and R9's. Which were a bit of a market research exercise for Leica which was: "if you build a manual focus SLR; they will not come". Concurrent with official Leica betrayal to Canon users month; is Leica first time in the black for decades month. After the day before yesterday being widely declared as dead; a company in the past tense. I'm happy Leica has taken the low road and picked staying alive as you can kick a company when they are dead but it is less fun. The fact that Leica has not organized the future of the company on my particularly economic situation and whims is no surprise to me. I'd not dream of begrudging them for it. Getting an M9 would mean selling my car. But I already did that. Leica now as we go into the next decade of this new millennium has the best platform for shooting the best glass in the digital 24x36mm format. Leica also has the best platform for shooting the best glass in the SLR configuration; though the format is a bit bigger. An issue which insures this top position just as much as the second to none glass which goes on it and with second to none fast auto focus. Leica is at the top of the heap. King of the hill. Just in time for 2011. I get to say I used to use the stuff. And someday when things come to pass amazingly as they always do I'll be using it again. I've always been real fond of using the best. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Gary Todoroff <datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:33:36 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] More night-time 50mm Summilux-R > > "Inconvenient" actually is a pretty good description of the > Leica-R-Canon combo, George. However, when used for such a specific > self-assignment -- 50/1.4 almost always wide-open in low-light -- > it's not half bad. The combo works well for aerial photography, too, > where lenses are taped down at infinity focus, and the slightly dim > viewfinder of a stopped down lens does not affect my ability to see > landmarks. "Inconvenient", however, is exactly how I might describe > the conditions for using our R and M lenses on Leica's own digital > cameras these days! As in Inconveniently Absent (R) and > Inconveniently Expensive (M). > Gary