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New Leica digital back info....
New info about the Leica digital back...
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03...adigitalr9.asp I'm told it should have a street date of around Dec 1st. Barney |
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The Leica SLRs are still mutants. R Leica optics are not sufficiently
differentiable from pro Japanese glass anyone would buy them except for-what's the fancy word-size queen entertainment? |
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Lourens Smak wrote in news:smak-132D88.13574027062004
@news.wanadoo.nl: Is the date wrong on the website? Don't think so, this info is exactly a year old.... The back is supposed to be presented on this year's Photokina in Cologne. (september...) Sorry, did not know. I thought it was new info. I do however hope to have some new info soon from the Leica rep I met two days ago. Taking advantage of a Leica sale, I just bought a R9 with the 90mm lens and the sales person named Linda asked me to email her to receive some new info about the digital back. She will get a chance to check it out herself around the start of July. About receiving an email from her, I have not as of yet. Barney |
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TP snip
All this hostility towards Leica products, all because you cannot afford to buy them. How does the logic go? If you cannot afford them, they cannot be any good? I could afford to buy them, just not as many: I could swap my 200mm Medical Nikkor even up for any of several R Leica lenses. Because of the cam issues, which is even nuttier than the AI Nikkor situation, R Leica lenses used can be very reasonable. Although you might make a case for one or two of the pieces on a piece basis, in general, Nikkors-pro Nikkors-are technically better optics than Leitz glass. Leitz and Zeiss, as another poster succinctly summarized, use a few different tradeoffs for subjectively more pleasing results in some people's opinion. It's not mine. If Leica wanted to "cut heads" they'd offer their lenses in other mounts, they don't. They're selling mystique and bull**** to a great extent. Panavision can very definitely afford German lenses. That they choose (usually) otherwise speaks volumes. |
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Lourens Smak wrote:
Is the date wrong on the website? Don't think so, this info is exactly a year old.... The back is supposed to be presented on this year's Photokina in Cologne. (september...) What is new is that Leica dealers in Europe are now accepting advance orders with a delivery date of December 1, 2004. They have also announced prices: GBP 3299.00 including 17.5% VAT in the UK and Euro 4500.00 including 18% VAT in Germany. |
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Not Loving R Leica-TP Sharpens Claws, to No Avail
TP wrote in message . ..
(Ted Azito) wrote: I could afford to buy them, just not as many Thank you for proving my point. I don't have as many Nikkors as I could afford. I have M Leicas,and M Leica optics, I use them more than anything else in fact, and if I had to buy new glass all over again I'd look at the Voightlander lenses very carefully before buying Leica. Undoubtedly the Leica _mounts_ are probably a little better made. (FWIW I have a SM Fed 5 I bought new for under $100. It's awkward and a little clunky but I've shot some nice images with it. I bought a SM-to-M adapter and used its standard 50mm lens on M's. The Leitz glass is a little sharper and more contrasty, as are Nikkors on F's, but you have to go to big print sizes to notice much and the Russian optic-which is uncoated-is still very respectable. And what is the lens alone worth, $30?) But it's not for their optical prowess. It's availability. If Nikon made a best-effort M Leica mount Nikkor-or one of several other optical houses-I would probably buy one for spite. (There, are you happy?) |
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