Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11/10/2006 9:05:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, Digiratidoc@aol.com writes: But I bet we've all been caught in a rain storm in sandals when we wish we were wearing our boots! ----I carry the boots in the car Not all of us can afford to own an M8 AND an R8 AND a Pentax DSLR, ---That's true. And I only have recently have been able to afford them all, though I don't yet have an M8 and I have sold off some M stuff so I can afford the three. and if we could how many of us would want to schlepp 3 cameras around all the time. ____But lots of people (not me) schlepp 3 cameras. Ted does more! I usually carry the one I expect to use.. The others are in my car. 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. __Most of those things weer a grudging response to other Manufacturer's R cameras. The Macro elmar is not a useful tool to most people. I think it was invented to show they could. 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. ____Those workarounds are available in a thousand cameras. (Maybe that's why they didn't, they want to sell those Macro-Elmars!) ____Yeah, I'll bet they sold at least 100 of those. 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. ---right elegant. though the camera is Plasticy for the price. It has lots of nice features 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*. ----But, what you fail to recognize here, is that the average M user doesn't want this. 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 doubt it. 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. -- Order now. It is gonna be fixed 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. ---Umm. They have never been purveyors of new, brilliant. Just good stuff. That's what Barnack did. ____He had a need and made it work. He was not original, just a good technician. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish