On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thoughts too, Bob. The E-1 is a professionally capable axe like my > Nikon F3/T+MD-4 was, and more capable in several ways. > > And actually the Leica M8 is another "photographer's camera" ... it's > just not designed as appropriate for combat conditions, which the > TotL Olympus, Nikon and Canon cameras are. > > I'm kinda surprised that this combat photojournalist would consider > an M8 as appropriate to his field work after using a loaner. I could > tell immediately from fooling with it at the store that it fits in > the class of use that the K10D and L1 fit in, not the kind of bash > around rugged piece that the E-1/E-3, Canon 1D II, or Nikon D3 were > designed to be. >
Well, whether it was designed to be a war photographer's tool or not, it's low-light capabilities are shocking, and rather sad given Leica's legacy of lenses such as the Noctilux. It sounds like it's just a horrible camera at virtually any price, let alone $10K. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
