Charles Robinson wrote: > On Feb 23, 2007, at 15:45, Thibouille wrote: > >> AFAIK the Leica R digital back is out of business ... >> >> 2007/2/23, Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/r_system/ >>> >>> For film & digital. It's shoots on film and with digital back - it's >>> DSLR in seconds. >>> > > Is it considered heretical to say that a Leica assembly looks like > something ugly, unweildy, and non-user-friendly? > > The TOP view of that camera, especially, makes it look like something > I'd never ever want to use. I thought Leica was known for their > spare, efficient, jewel-like assembly. This thing looks like a big > pig with a lot of parts just glued on to the outside! > > (I don't mean literally glued, but still - yow, it's a mess!) > > -Charles >
What, you don't like the Hunchback of Solms? I've not been impressed by any of the R series bodies I've seen. The older ones are very much Minoltas (and while the MD mount bodies are competent, I've never much liked them) and the newer ones are just plain odd, and underfeatured compared to the equivalent Contax bodies. Combine that with Leica's seeming lack of any understanding of the SLR market (Why did they never have a lower-end body? Even Contax typically had low and mid range bodies to complement the RTS) and I wonder how the R system lasted so long. -Adam -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
