All that glass is pretty much worthless if the body doesn't work. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/19/2010 2:33 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> It should still bother him. A Leica should be a "dream purchase". >> They charge top dollar and they are competing with some of the best >> pro cameras. The very idea that "it just wouldn't work right" is >> almost inconceivable. Maybe I'm just being naive here but why else >> would anyone buy a Leica if not for superb if maybe eclectic >> performance? In terms of actual usage I'll bet that the Canon and >> Nikon offerings in that range are better all around workhorse cameras. > > Steve, I am thinking that the Leica camera as a single item, say M8, is not > a dream purchase. It is rather a key to big Pandora box of the glass that > one will have to mount on their "dream purchase". It is to say that as a > system, Leica is mighty expensive and it is unlikely that someone would > impulse buy their dream camera just because. Although entirely possible. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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