Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 24, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I think a high quality camera is a Leica M which cost 7000 bucks. > I think an small format fui X-100 selling for $829 is not what I'd call "a > high quality camera". Its a nice prosumer camera. > I think a RX1 which is not small frame and cost $2,800 is "a high quality > camera" quality and price are not necessarily in synch, the x100 is a high quality camera (with compromises to keep the price down), the Sony R1 is a high quality camera (with compromises made to keep it small). Steve > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:29:22 -0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> >> I can relate to the fondness that one can "develop" for a small >> high-quality >> camera. I've gotten very attached to my X-100 . >> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu> >> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 8:10 pm >> >> >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>wrote: >> >>> Reading early releases on Sony's forthcoming ultrapremium-priced non-SLR >>> non-interchangeable, non-zoom-lens finderless full-frame digicam, >the >>> RX1, I >>> couldn't help but think about its nearest film equivalent, and one of my >>> favorite past cameras, the little Oly XA. I'll bet a lot of >LUGgers >>> past a >>> certain age used this little gem. How many of you still have yours? Use >>> it? >> ============================================================================== >> ======================== >> I've got two, and one is loaded with Tri-X right now. >> >> My first one was bought used from a photojournalist friend who used it >> clandestinely in Poland during the Solidarity movement around 1980. She >> was >> on a leave of absence there at the time, and found her Nikons were too >> visible >> to safely use during demonstrations, but the XA was easy to conceal from >> the >> authorities. She got friends to smuggle her film out of Poland and the >> photos >> were published in the Milwaukee Journal anonymously. >> >> I used this XA to shoot what is probably one of my five all-time favorite >> pictures: >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Color/Solitude_AMR.jpg.h >> tml> >> >> I'm very fond of the XA. It's so tiny and quiet for situations like >> these: >> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Travel/Art_Man_AMR.jpg.h >> tml> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/Heels_AMR.jpg.ht >> ml> >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Relations >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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