Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 800 dollar camera is in sync with the fact that its sensor is half the size of the RX1. This is the Leica list and we're talking about a high quality camera. Its not a smaller then necessary format camera selling for the price of a Leica lens shade. The Rollei 35 and Olympus XA really could give your SLR quality. If they were half frame cameras they could not. The Fuji is a half frame in effect digital camera. "quality" is not why your buying the camera unless your comparing it against junk point and shoots. And my apologies to those who bought the camera thinking you were buying a piece of top pro gear. But it would not take a genius to figure out a full frame compact was in the wings. And yes they cost real money. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:55:39 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information