On 4/14/07, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no easy way around this - the Leica M8 IS a lovely camera.? > But it's not for the same work as a Pentax DSLR. Can you imagine shooting > soccer game (with a 170-500mm zoom) with a M8?
Sure. You can say a similar thing about doing street photography with a DSLR with a mirror slap and a diaphragm that closes every time you take a picture, completely giving you away. Some people make that work. I'm sure a talented photographer would make great soccer pictures with a Leica and a short fixed lens. [...] > its' a life style, a status > symbol. Take the M8 for a ride in your Porche, and bring it to the theatre, > the opera, the exhibition etc. - whereever you go to enjoy life. People buy > an M8 for the same resons you buy a Porche, Ferrari or BMW. Dude that's presumptuous. I drive a late 90's Honda, worth about half what that M8 would cost. I don't care to get a new car. I do care to have a camera that works the way I work in the street. IOW, the features I need from a car I can get from a cheap Honda. The ones I'd like in a camera it seems I can only get from Leica, or from the Epson RD-1, except for its drawbacks. > Take your Pentax to the ballgame, the beach, the hike, anywhere you go - to > take pictures. The SLR/DSLR is the choise of photographers. People buy a > DSLR to take pictures. Bob already answered this quite eloquently... j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
