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Subject: [Leica] Leica heresy
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 20:43:47 -0500
References: <D07D8BAC.2AC7A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark - Ah, it makes sense now.  Thanks.  

Dick




On Nov 03, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Was not referring to you Richard but the guy with the website who did the
> writing on the thing.
> 
> 
> On 11/3/14 7:18 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Jeeze, Mark, take a deep breath will you and re-read my note.  It was a
>> ancient 12MP D300 that went not a D800.  As I get older I don?t what to 
>> lug
>> all that weight around so I didn?t wasn?t to upgrade my Nikon stuff.
>> 
>> 16MP is enough for what I want to do regardless of sensor size so I?m 
>> mostly
>> shooting with an Oly EM-1 these days and pulled my old micro 4/3rds 
>> lenses out
>> of the closet to use on it.  Two of them are PanaLeicas?s.  Great stuff.
>> 
>> ? though I must say a yearning for one of the Sony A7?s persists and one 
>> may
>> end up in my hands one of these days.
>> 
>> You have your needs, I have mine.  Mustn?t confuse the two.  If you need a
>> large sensor hi-res camera, use it.  I don?t.
>> 
>> Best, 
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 03, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Funny but this is a guy who in effect traded his D800 Nikon for a Fuji
>>> X100s. So its clear he's missing a few links in his grasp of camera
>>> function. Great with typing out  caricatures of people based on this non
>>> grasp of the basics of what certain cameras are all about and what 
>>> certain
>>> other aren't.
>>> 
>>> Why do I need a Nikon D800 full frame 36mp camera when I can just shoot 
>>> with
>>> a 16 Mp APS-C cropped Fuji pseudo rangefinder listing for $999?
>>> Because there is little overlap in what these camera are all about.  If  
>>> you
>>> bought and used to of the rez Nikon why would you even look at the Fuji?
>>> The 800 now 810 is the king of full frame cameras when you need the 
>>> highest
>>> resolution and tonal range possible.
>>> The fuji is when quality is not so much the issue as you are shooting a
>>> cropped camera which is all about compactness and low price point and 
>>> trying
>>> to pass itself off as a bargain basement Leica.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/1/14 10:23 AM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Amen!  Very funny, very on the mark.  But?  I just sold my X Pro-1 and 
>>>> all
>>>> it?s lenses because all the new lenses Fuji has announced will be 
>>>> physically
>>>> large.* More and more, I find, I want to carry less and less when I
>>>> photograph.  I kept my X100s, though?
>>>> 
>>>> Best, 
>>>> 
>>>> Dick
>>>> 
>>>> *My D300 and it?s two big zooms went months ago, too.
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 31, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> He got it in one...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jay (who has a X100T pre-ordered.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/31/2014 5:54 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
>>>>>> A camera walks into a bar:
>>>>>> 
> http://www.tomen.de/fuji-x100s-review-a-camera-walks-into-a-bar-zack-arias>>>>>
> /
>>>>> 
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