Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But I bet we've all been caught in a rain storm in sandals when we wish we were wearing our boots! Not all of us can afford to own an M8 AND an R8 AND a Pentax DSLR, and if we could how many of us would want to schlepp 3 cameras around all the time. Over the years Leica has a history of creating ways to somehow work around the limitations of the RF, e.g. the DR Summicron, the Visoflex system, and of late the 90mm Macro-Elmar. And now they create what may be a brilliant digital camera, the M8, and have the opportunity to make it much more flexible and usefull by including a live view LCD which would essentially make all those *workarounds* unnecessary and...they don't. (Maybe that's why they didn't, they want to sell those Macro-Elmars!) Olympus designed a live view LCD with the E330 when they probably didn't even need to...it IS an SLR after all...and they had to contend with the mirror box. It would have been a very simple matter to design one into the M8 where it WOULD have been a handy and usefull addition to the overall design, and it should have been easy with all their experience with those *Leica/Panasonics*. I'd be willing to bet that Cosina is at this very minute designing an M8 clone that will take real Leica glass, not the *Leica/Panasonic* glass, and includes a live view LCD. A *camera for every man*. I will probably eventually get an M8, if the IR bugs are worked out to my satisfaction, just so I can use my Leica glass on a quality M-based system. But if Leica is going to compete in the modern digital world, I think they need to create not just good cameras, but cameras that include something new, something original and maybe brilliant. That's what Barnack did. In a message dated 11/10/2006 5:57:18 PM Central Standard Time, SonC@aol.com writes: In a message dated 11/10/2006 5:50:47 P.M. Central Standard Time, Digiratidoc@aol.com writes: I like rangefinder focusing too. It's why I own and use Leicas. But there are those times when trying to get a closeup or using a 135 Elmarit when knowing exactly what the lens is *seeing* might be nice. Just my 2 cents. Jim ----------- Yeah, me too. That's why I own an R8 and a Pentax DSLR. I also have a tack hammer, a nailing hammer and a sledge hammer. Also sandals, sneakers and boots. Right tool for the job; nothing like it! my zwei pfennig. ;-) Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information