[Leica] R-Series Reality

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

How much macro and extreme long photo work does most people do? I shot M6's
through out the 90's fully expecting to need my Nikon Macros and longer
teles on a regular bases. I almost never did.
That fact is an M gets it pretty darned close an a 135 3.4 APO is not short.
I watched the flash go off thousands of times through my frame lines on the
white backdrop the flash being Balcar Strobes. And I used a 90 or 135.

I thought about Leica R or Leicaflex or Contax for my minimal SLR needs.
But realized that these needs were just to minimal to bother with more
cameras more systems. The Nikons don't embarrass me and are fun to use.
The pictures just seem to somehow come out. Hung next to a Leica picture
they really seem ok.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Leonard J Kapner <kapner at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:41:05 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] R-Series Reality
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> I certainly understand your point of view and, upon reflection, perhaps
> optimal cannot be an absolute, but has meaning only in relation to another
> tangible solution.
> 
> I guess I arrived at my purchase conclusion somewhat subjectively. In the 
> case
> of the DM-R and the M8, I didn't want a digital "crop camera" when I had 
> full
> frame capabilities with the film bodies I had already purchased.
> 
> I'm comfortable having waited for the M9, as it is a gorgeous solution, 
> fully
> implemented from my point of view. Alas, the R-series decision I made has 
> not
> turned out so well, at least up to the current time. I think I was becoming
> somewhat obsessive about a digital R-series solution as I have a 
> non-trivial
> investment in the lenses.
> 
> The transcript of the Leica executives' Photokina press conference was a 
> good
> dose of reality, and caused me to re-evaluate, leading me to conclude that
> using film may not be today's "perfect" solution but for now, with these
> wonderful R-series lenses, it is certainly "good enough" to keep using and
> enjoying.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> Len
> 
> ---
> 
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:34 AM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
> 
>> I can only add that I don't agree that the DMR or M8 were sub-optimal when
>> they arrived.
>> The DMR remains the only and therefore optimal digital choice for using R
>> lenses in their fully operational modes.
>> And of course, while the M9 has replaced the M8 as optimal in the use of M
>> lenses in digital capture;
>> the M8 was optimal before the M9's arrival; and remains a very viable and
>> capable tool.
> 
> 
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