On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > frank theriault wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> I think he inadvertently summed it up with this: "The Leica M3 of the >>> 1950's was an instant success, not because Leica held to quaint design >>> and outdated technology (i.e. the M8's removable bottom plate) in a >>> misplaced effort to attract classicists, but because they used new >>> technology to build a camera that was on the cutting edge of its time." >>> >>> Leica isn't building cameras for him, the real photojournalist, but for >>> "classicists", the kind of Leicaphiles who now constitute the majority >>> of their customer base. >>> >>> >>>>>> http://web.mac.com/kamberm/Leica_M8_Field_Test,_Iraq >>>>>> >> >> I thought exactly the same as you. It's amazing that one can buy >> virtually any consumer/entry-level dslr that outperforms the Leica at >> 1/20th the price. >> >> It's moot anyway, but when I'm ready to go digital rangefinder, I >> guess it'll be an Epson. Or does Voigtlander have theirs out yet? I >> haven't been paying attention... >> >> Pity that Leica has fallen so far so quickly. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> > Unfortunately, the Epson is the Voightlander, and more unfortunate is > that Epson doesn't seem in any hurry to produce a follow on product and > just to make this sentence more unwieldy, one of the problems of the > Epson/Voightlander is the lack of good wide angle lenses, due to the > crop factor. >
Epson was using Voightlander/Cosina bodies, but it wasn't a Voightlander project. Rumour does have it that a Zeiss Ikon-based DRF is under development, and there's also persistent strong rumours that Nikon has a DRF project as well in either M or Nikon S mount. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
