Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Honestly, the M appeals to me as an M9 owner, but only as much as a penthouse apartment, a G5 with a pilot and lifetime supply of Jet A, or a vacation home in Tuscany. Guess I need to start buying lottery tickets, 'cause that's the only way I will get any of the above. For now, though, the M9 and my D3 will just have to do. -----Original Message----- From: FRANK DERNIE Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:18 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] D800E pixel-peepers Personally I'd be surprised if the M appeals to many more photographers than the M9, perhaps 10%-20%, plus maybe a few for whom it will be an acceptable vehicle for their R lenses. I've been wrong before, though. I am a bit concerned that it may appeal to a few wealthy younger photographers for whom the craft of photography is a bit of a mystery, those who have only used auto-focus matrix metering photo-computers in the past. A few showed up having bought M9s and they were -completely- baffled by it. Their slagging off on the 'net was not pretty, even though it was merely, unbeknown to them, merely illustrating their own lack of education. FD >________________________________ > From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 16:21 >Subject: Re: [Leica] D800E pixel-peepers > >Because of the Leica M and Monochrom cameras. >Both will be sought after by top reportage people, street shooters. All >kinds of shooters really. >The M9 was not so much in the limelight because it was not so much in the >low light. Full frame alone was not enough to make the difference. People >want Jam on their bagels. They most certainly wanted to do what could be >done with a DSLR. Now they can. Even zoom. >We'll see a huge difference public relations wise with stories about top >jobs being shot with the new Leica M's. Night jobs, low light jobs. >Traditional standard Leica M jobs. > >The Leica glass which has come out in the past decade will be allowed to >shine like never before. As well as the Leica glass from pervious decades. > >My Leica glass is mainly from the turn of the millennium. The Late 90's. >Early 2000's. >The 21 and 24 Elmarit ASPH 's and the 35mm Summicron ASPH. A Noctilux and a >135 f3.4 Telyt M APO. And two 90's an Elmarit from the previous vintage >made >with NASA money and the ASPH APO Summicron. >When I got a new M its going to be quite a thing getting much of this glass >to work with it I guess. No clue how much I'll have to budget for that. > >Mark William Rabiner >Photography >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:26:05 +0000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] D800E pixel-peepers >> >> So why do you think that 2013 will be the year of Leica's resurgence? >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Yes I would love a direct comparison of a D600 with modern nikon 50mm >> being >> put to shame by Leica's latest. The fact is Canons and Nikons are >> producing >> gorgeous images every day by the top people out there as we speak. I'd >> think >> for 5 times the money a Leica could edge it out a bit. But its not going >> to be >> a big deal. Nobodies going to be shedding a tear they are forced to use >> the >> Canons and Nikons. Canon Nikon results are exquisite. Leica is proably a >> bit >> more that that. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information