Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/10

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Subject: [Leica] More new Fuji X100 info
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:13:22 -0500

If you're one thing you're consistent with your short succinct personal
attacks with no attempt to address a specific argument.


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Mark William Rabiner





> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:37:02 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] More new Fuji X100 info
> 
> Tiresome, really.
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> YNWA
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> 
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> The value perception of cropped camera systems is going to plummet solidly
>> in a very few years if not sooner. If you want a return on your investment
>> you might not get it like you'd expect to with much gear you get now.
>> If you got an M8 which  you can get  now I think for quite cheap despite 
>> all
>> the problems involved with it all the glass you accumulated for that 
>> camera
>> would then be usable on the M9 or any full frame camera Leica comes up 
>> with.
>> I'd go that route then.
>> I'm not seeing teachers in schools telling their students to get a Fuji
>> X100. They'd be telling them to invest in a system which can be upgraded
>> seriously. The Fuji X100 for its existence (I give it four years) will be 
>> a
>> play toy for people with available cash who like to buy and sell photo 
>> gear.
>> It won't be used much by people taking a potentially serious interest in
>> street or any other kind of photography. Its a here today gone tomorrow
>> special. Yes very retro. The lack of distance scales on the lenses could 
>> be
>> thought of as a dead give away. As is looking at examples of 4000 across
>> pixel images which measure 2 inches across your computer monitor and cant 
>> be
>> viewed larger.
>> It's an emperors new clothes camera system.  We all know deep inside its a
>> waste of our time and resources. Its not about photography It's about
>> playing with new toys.
>> 
>> When we started out decades back with an M2 or a Nikkormat the film it 
>> shot
>> was still 36mm's across just like all the big boy cameras and all the 
>> glass
>> we got could be used on our later big boy bodies.
>> Its good to have later bodies in mind.
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
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>> 
>>> From: Quan Tran <quantran101 at gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:28:02 -0800
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] More new Fuji X100 info
>>> 
>>> I have been following this camera on and off. Still wonder how one would 
>>> do
>>> zone focusing without the distance scale on the lens? I want to learn to
>>> do street photography, but could not afford a M9 and 35mm lux. I wonder 
>>> if
>>> this camera could be good for beginner street photography?
>>> 
>>> Anyone wants to offer advise?
>>> -Q.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/gallery/images?utm_source=email&utm_medium=emai
>>>> l&
>>>> utm_campaign=feb
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/story/mechanical?utm_source=email&utm_medium=em
>>>> ai
>>>> l&utm_campaign=feb
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/whats-new/press-release?utm_source=email&utm_me
>>>> di
>>>> um=email&utm_campaign=feb
>>>> 
>>>> John
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Quan Tran.
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