Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would call it for sure Leica-like. And very worthy of discussion on this list. As in I'd NOT call it "OT". Which means On Target, or Overtime, or Out of Town Old-Timer Oregon Trail Oliver Twist and Occupied Territories. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Scott Gregory <scottgregory at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:51:54 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] x-100 and Marks comments > > Mark I have a friend in my city of London who uses an X100 for street > photography as well as a lot of family shots as he has a 4 month old Son. > The > quality of the photos he gets is amazing and I've seen his prints framed as > well which are amazing, especially in black and white. It's certainly a > nice > sized camera to carry around and does turn heads for sure. > > On 2012-11-25, at 1:35 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> Its a nice camera the X100 ... pardon me please for hitting too hard the >> point and it being a "quality" camera or not. Semantics. >> Its a great camera for the person who owns it and is getting great shots >> with it. >> urns my head when I pass one on the street. Excellently styled. A super >> great camera for the money is my opinion. And a bit of a milestone. >> >> Just bad timing as it was followed so closely by the full frame RX1 so the >> honeymoon would have been shortened a bit on its stance on the total >> playing >> field. >> That's my opinion. And I think it will reflect many others. Or I'll find >> out >> sooner or not. I just call it as I see it. Sometimes I'm wrong. But I'm >> happy about how often I'm right my position is having done serious and >> professional photography for many decades my first darkroom in the mid >> '60s. >> >> 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: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:34:14 -0800 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >>> >>> Maybe I've bonded with my X100 because I don't have an M9. My bank >>> account >>> and I can see where this is going. >>> >>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone >>> >>> ----- Reply message ----- >>> From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) >>> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 11:35 pm >>> >>> >>> I have never really bonded with my X100, at high ASA it beats my M9 but >>> in >>> good light there is no comparison as far as I am concerned - this is from >>> experience rather than reading web sites, unlike some ;-) >>> >>> john >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> So, how many images have you made with the X100 since you know so much >>> about >>> it? >>> >>> Looking in my LR catalog, I see 1497 X100 images. Many of them are in >>> poor >>> light, and I would put them against an M9 any time. >>> >>> I am going to Paris for a couple of days on Tuesday, and because I need >>> to >>> travel ultra-light, I am taking just the X100. I am sacrificing some >>> versatility wrt. focal length by doing so, but I am NOT sacrificing any >>> image >>> quality. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> >>> >>> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> 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/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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