Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Intelligent guessing really is fun. A bit like puzzle making or reading a who dunnit and trying to be Sherlock Holmes. A but like gambling or playing the odds basic on how we access what we know. We must be a perceptive analyst to make a smart forecast. In the end we'll see who wins. Who comes the closest. It will be all in the LUG archives. Hold the anchovies. We're in a stage now where the Sony RX1 compact will shoot the pants off the Leica X2 compact as it has a full sized sensor. So Leica is going to respond by putting interchangeable lenses on it? The RX1 will STILL shoot the pants off it. Leica HAS TO to come out with a camera which will be as compact as the Sony but make better pictures than the Sony. The true essence of what it means to be a Leica camera is in compactness and high quality from that small product form. Compactness is where Leica lives. At least in its history. It can't settle for second place in this area. The Rx1 has a super premium a bit ostentatious Zeiss optic in front of it. But Leica can out do Zeiss when it puts its mind to it it. And it will. And it wont let the camera puff up as a result of an ostentatiously puffed up optic in front. It will put a compact ASPH APO Leica gem in front. >From years of experience of making glass which wont interfere with the viewfinder. Experience Sony never had making Walkmans and Trinitron screens. Leica can certainly design a better compact camera than Sony. The M240 is mouth watering but a metal munching mouthful. I love it and want one but Leicawise its a bit of a monster. A digital compact of Barnack proportions will even things out they way they should be. A non tunnel carpel option. A camera a guy with asthma who wants to climb hills would want to use. On 5/27/13 11:39 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Well I would bet beer against a rebadged Fujifilm camera with an M mount > ;-) > Guessing is fun. Not long until the 11th. I am going to stay out of the web > groups for a few days from then ;-) > > > *Breathe in, breathe out, move on* -- Jimmy Buffett > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 28 May 2013 13:32, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote: > >> Sooooo, Geoff... anything else you'd care to share with us? ;-) >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On May 27, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >>> Nope ;-) >>> On May 28, 2013 10:03 AM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at aol.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My guess is that the Leica mini m is simply a rebaged and cosmetically >>>> altered Fuji x, possibly with an M mount. Leica and Fuji have had a long >>>> relationship. Remember that the first Leica digitals were Fujis. The >>>> Digilux was a Fuji MX-700, the Digilux Zoom, a Fuji MX-1700, and the >> Diglux >>>> 4.3, a Fuji 4700 Zoom. Back in the film days Leica had a relationship >> with >>>> Minolta. The Leica CL was a Minolta product. >>>> >>>> What better, cheaper, and more expedient way to fill a marketing void >> than >>>> simply putting your name on someone else's product. >>>> >>>> Larry Z >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/