Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Better US$1200 for four years than US$7000 for four years. (-: All digital equipment has a life of less than four years anyway. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 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 > > > > >> 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=email&; >>> utm_campaign=feb >>> >>> >>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/story/mechanical?utm_source=email&utm_medium=emai >>> l&utm_campaign=feb >>> >>> >>> http://www.finepix-x100.com/whats-new/press-release?utm_source=email&utm_medi >>> um=email&utm_campaign=feb >>> >>> John >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Quan Tran. >> blog: http://1lens.wordpress.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >