Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/26

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Subject: SORRY! Re: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Sep 26 12:44:33 2006
References: <6.1.0.6.2.20060926041744.08484018@192.168.100.42> <6.1.0.6.2.20060926120226.08774c40@192.168.100.42> <9b678e0609261214hadf5576i313cb3757034e94e@mail.gmail.com>

When the US wakes up on saturday some impressions will be online  
already, I'm sure :-)


Op 26-sep-06, om 21:14 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven:

> 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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In reply to: Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard) ([Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?)
Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard) (SORRY! Re: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) (SORRY! Re: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?)