[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan Dimitrov)]

I shoot with a 1D Mark III.
Guess what, it also starts chocking up when I shoot RAW and jpg  
together. Thankfully not on the first shot. I have to admit, I do it  
for only one client, and none other.
S.d.


On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> In my view, the best thing to do is to keep the things that really
>> count in M photography - manual focus capability, responsiveness,
>> silence and compactness; discard the nostalgia; and re-construct  
>> the M
>> camera as a modern one, not a slavish simulacrum of a film camera
>> designed 60 years ago.
>>
>> Dante
>
>
> I don't believe the huge files the M9 shoots are necessary and have  
> said so
> a dozen times on the LUG.
> If the responsiveness of the camrea was an issue perhaps I'd forgo  
> the need
> to shoot compressed files and the need to have also jpegs doubling  
> what I'm
> doing which would be for what reason anyway? In case you go nuts and  
> forget
> how to open a raw file and tweak it?
>
> On the large possible slightly cumbersome file size I can understand  
> the
> importance of doing so to be justifying Leica glass which is heads  
> about the
> rest but in price too. An near super camera would seem to do this  
> more so
> than your plain vanilla  12 MP fast high iso doable camera.
> I'm sure the marketing plan is the reverse of Nikons and Canons.
> Which was to come out with a workable pro 12 MP body then later come  
> out
> with a 20+ MP jacked up one for commercial photographers and fine art
> photographer and sell it for 8 grand.
> Leica did the reverse of this and for a logical reason.
> The price point also needed to be and it had to be seen at last
> superficially as "the best".
>
> A smaller company such as Leica its first thing first; and the  
> quicker 12 mp
> camera is I feel in my bones is in the wings ready to come on -  
> Right after
> the holidays.
> And that will be the superior "the best" Leica camera.
> The ones high profile photo journalists and street shooters who are
> traditional Leica shooters will scoop up.
> None of these people ever needed high sustained burst rates few ever  
> put
> drives on their M's. But they'll get close to that  with a 12mp body.
> More to the point they'll get a body with a larger pixel site  
> enabling the
> kind of ISO's DSLR street shooters are quickly getting used to.
> The street shooters who used to use M" s.
> We want them back in the fold again.
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
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