BREAKING: Leica announces an aggressive response to the Fujifilm X100!

The constant endless threads about a camera that's some six months away from official release yet is painful.

I hope it's a dog!
 
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When I first saw a picture of this camera I thought it looked pretty cool. Now I am just so sick of seeing every thread on the ^%*&#$* thing! It just goes to show that a pretty face is sometimes all it takes...

So, hopefully you are right Keith and it will be a dog!
 
Keith said:
The constant endless threads about a camera that's some six months away from official release yet is painful.

I hope it's a dog!
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Yes, almost as tiresome as the highly original joke of photoshopping a red dot onto a different camera and claiming it is the latest Leica and will be outrageously expensive. Hilarious. :rolleyes:
 
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Okay. I'm going to delete the thread in an hour or two. It was fun (for me, and maybe two others), and now it's over.

phil.wright said:
When I first saw a picture of this camera I thought it looked pretty cool. Now I am just so sick of seeing every thread on the ^%*&#$* thing! It just goes to show that a pretty face is sometimes all it takes...
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This is crazy talk, though. The X100 could look like a train-wreck and we'd still be talking about it. Its fame is all about the viewfinder and the potential for usable manual focus.

If this camera was designed as nothing more than a workmanlike X1-killer (top controls, big screen, no VF, accessible price) no one would give a crap about it, even if it made the M9 look like something that had been stepped on. It would be getting the same buzz as that interchangeable-lens Samsung thing that I haven't even bothered to look into and never will.

The buzz about the X100 is all about usability, and all about a mainstream camera manufacturer listening to demand instead of trying to force it. This is what the ugly-as-sin G12 should have been. If it had been announced with a

Pico-projectors on cameras is about selling cameras. A big, bright, innovative hybrid viewfinder is about photography. Fujifilm is taking a high-road with this one, and therein lies the excitement.

/misplaced-rant
 
+1 with gusto

tapesonthefloor said:
Okay. I'm going to delete the thread in an hour or two. It was fun (for me, and maybe two others), and now it's over.



This is crazy talk, though. The X100 could look like a train-wreck and we'd still be talking about it. Its fame is all about the viewfinder and the potential for usable manual focus.

If this camera was designed as nothing more than a workmanlike X1-killer (top controls, big screen, no VF, accessible price) no one would give a crap about it, even if it made the M9 look like something that had been stepped on. It would be getting the same buzz as that interchangeable-lens Samsung thing that I haven't even bothered to look into and never will.

The buzz about the X100 is all about usability, and all about a mainstream camera manufacturer listening to demand instead of trying to force it. This is what the ugly-as-sin G12 should have been. If it had been announced with a

Pico-projectors on cameras is about selling cameras. A big, bright, innovative hybrid viewfinder is about photography. Fujifilm is taking a high-road with this one, and therein lies the excitement.

/misplaced-rant
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tapesonthefloor said:
The buzz about the X100 is all about usability, and all about a mainstream camera manufacturer listening to demand instead of trying to force it. This is what the ugly-as-sin G12 should have been. If it had been announced with a
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...looks like I lost a bit of copy, there. I can't remember where I was going with it, either. Let me try:

"If it (the G12) had been announced with a proper viewfinder, peeps would've sh!t brix instead of yawning."

There.
 
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