Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/13

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Subject: [Leica] Big news D600 and RX1
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:42:18 +0530
References: <54899F35-BD7B-40C3-B591-0E759C8569CF@mac.com> <CC77AD3A.23837%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,
So when are you going to buy one, sorry, I got that wrong, I mean actually
touch one? (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> As a professional, I owned a Rollei 35, and an Olympus XA clamshell both.
> As
> did a half the photographers I knew.
> This camera translates directly to the digital equivalent of that. The RX1.
> Very compact. But very capable. As the sensor is not  unnecessarily small.
> I think we'll be reading and seeing about the tons of pros who have the RX1
> at the bottom of their camera bag. If not the top. If not in their top
> shirt
> pocket at all times.
> It is true you are only as good as the camera you have with you.
> This camera can be with you. And make a result: digital file, jpeg, print
> which may be indistuqisuable form one from a top DSLR. I think that's what
> we are going to find out quickly to be the case. Its very exciting.
> We Leica people would be into compactness it should be right up our alley.
> The D600 should also be exciting news as many of us are already into Nikon.
> And the hopes that it gets the Leica people motivated to come out with a
> camera which is pocketable and worthy sensor size wise.
> I still have a nice set of Leica M glass. And its looking more and more
> than
> I'll be able to find a camera body to put them to use in the very near
> future I can afford to get. At that point it could become my main camera
> system. Things are looking up. The camera companies have to find a way to
> get people to put their iPhones down. So they have to think and do smarter
> and better.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>


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