Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1
From: dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:33:10 -0400
References: <1413428279317.24791@uwm.edu> <D065591E.2943D%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Anyone using a Leica T for M lenses? I haven't seen any posts
mention this on this forum.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
wrote:

> A Fuji XT-1 is similar to a Leica camera in what way? They're both cameras?
>
>
> On 10/15/14 10:58 PM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Bob Adler wrote:
> >
> >> I bought one for my wife and haven't touched it.
> >> She's a novice and complains each time she uses it that she must've
> touched
> >> some button (and yes I locked down the buttons even) and now it doesn't
> work.
> >> With a prior fuji I had the same issue.
> >> Despite how hard I try, I just can't get past the constant, inadvertent
> >> button strikes.
> >
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > ======================
> >
> > I don't think I'd like the XT-1, since I prefer the rangefinder-like
> bodies
> > without the prism hump - I've hardly used my Canon 30D since I got my
> X-E2
> > last December.
> >
> >
> > I love the Fuji so much that when I go out I have to take IT, with 35,
> 50 and
> > 85 manual lenses. I carry my LX3 too, just in case I might want to take a
> > wide-angle shot.
> >
> >
> > The X-E2 is the favorite digital camera I've ever used, and that group
> > includes Canon 1D, 1Ds, 10D, 30D, 1D MkII,
> >
> > and 5D MkII.   I shot a few frames with an M8, and liked it, but the EVF
> on
> > the Fuji allows me to use a variety of oddball lenses that I have.
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> > (Retired)
> > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> > 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
> >
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>
>
> --
> Mark William Rabiner
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In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1)