[Leica] Let's Just Say That Leica Survives and....

[nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)]

Mark,

I have not had a 4x6 machine print made in at least 15 years. I am 
comparing output sizes of A4 or A3. I have taken my digital files to a 
custom lab and had them printed using the Lambda process with stunning 
results. So my statement about digital having caught up with film as far 
as I am concerned is not based on machine prints.

My comment regarding the price point was more from a marketing point of 
view--I do not believe that Leica will sell enough digital bodies at 
6-7K to ever make money from it. It will be another R8, financially 
speaking.

If Leica (or Epson or somebody) had an M-compatible digital rangefinder 
with rangefinder specs similar to a Leica M in terms of accuracy at a 
price point of 2500 EUR or less, then I would have bought one in a 
heartbeat to use with my M lenses. Unfortunately, such an animal did not 
exist last year and does not exist now.

Nathan



Mark Rabiner wrote:

>>
>>Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> 
> By "trade in", Nathan you mean you TRADED IN your entire Leica M system for
> Canon EOS digital but you'd set yourself back up again with Leica again if
> they come in for under 2500 Euro?
> 
> I hope that's not the case but if it was did you compare your letter sized
> inkjet images against similar sized darkroom prints?
> This I think has often NOT been the case with people talking like this.
> 
> It was more to the tune of they like their letter sized inkjet images 
> better
> than they liked their 4x6 machine prints.
> So they then "had no more use for film".
> 
> And I really don't know where you fit into all this Nathan I'm only asking.
> 

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