SORRY! Re: [Leica] Who needs a M8 when you have a Nikon D200?

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Frankly, based on what dpreview has been posting, the M8 and new Hasselblad
are the only new products worth mentioning.


On 9/30/06 5:12 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:

> Damn, you beat me to it :-)
> Was preparing my Photokina report for tomorrow...
> 
> 
> 
> Op 30-sep-06, om 23:00 heeft Nathan Wajsman het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> OK--having just fondled today, I will bite. What Henning, Tom and
>> Ted have said is true: this feel every bit like a real M. Leica's
>> marketing tagline ("Ein echte M") is true. I do not really have
>> much to add except this tidbit: I asked the guy at the Leica booth
>> about the lens coding, specifically whether it had any impact on
>> the RAW image. He was not sure, so he asked one of his colleagues
>> (in German), and the answer was yes. According to Leica, even in
>> RAW mode the vignetting correction is applied.
>> 
>> Other than that, Leica's booth is much nicer than at previous
>> Photokinas; it is better laid out, with more space to move around,
>> so that the people crunch that often made Photokina a less than
>> pleasant experience was alleviated. The same was true of several
>> other vendors.
>> 
>> I think this is the best Photokina for Leica since I started
>> attending the show in 1998.
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> On 26-sep-2006, at 21:14, Don Dory wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
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