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

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Leica could double their market

Leica could double their market

I'll wait for the Royal Wedding version. Oh, wait ...

Leica should start making Royal Divorce versions as well. Now there is a market!

 

[LeicaTom]

I have the "inside scoop" the Digital Leica IIIG is coming soon!!!!!


Tom

 

[JayGannon]

http://idleicarefundplease.blogspot.com/

Thats a fantastic site. Buy used and use the money for travel guys, only way to live.

 

[M4streetshooter]

I have the "inside scoop" the Digital Leica IIIG is coming soon!!!!!


Tom

I thought 1st release was the IIIf Red Dial, Safari Edition but I've been known to be wrong about things.

 

[jsrockit]

Does anyone know where I can buy this? 😉

 

[Keith]

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!

 

[surfer dude]

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!

 

[varjag]

it looks like a leica, it can't be a dog 😛

 

[dexdog]

I have the "inside scoop" the Digital Leica IIIG is coming soon!!!!!Tom

I hope that they issue a titanium version, with matching sporran.

 

[jsrockit]

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!

So, I guess you don't like it? 😱

 

[Keith]

So, I guess you don't like it? 😱

Hey ... it might be a great camera and I might own one eventually, who knows?

I'm just over the feeding frenzy! 😛

 

[reiki_]

well , now I know they only want to make cameras no normal photographer can use. bunch of snobs.

 

[photogdave]

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!

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. 🙄

 

[tapesonthefloor]

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. 🙄

Let's say they're equally onerous and leave it at that. 😀

 

[Pherdinand]

yes the rumors are true and as per today, I am taking deposits of 400 euro (500$, 50 000 yen). Paypal accepted.

 

[JohnnyT]

But how do you pronounce Summicron?

Fujimmicron! 🙂

 

[tapesonthefloor]

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.

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...

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

 

[v_roma]

+1 with gusto

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

 

[tapesonthefloor]

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

...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.

 

[antiquark]

Okay. I'm going to delete the thread in an hour or two.

Why worry? If threads were deleted whenever someone complained, this forum would be a barren wasteland!

The original joke was funny, leave it as a reference for the google searches!