My Leica M3 is awesome and my Fuji X-Pro1 is obsolete

[kshapero]

Isn't it funny how everyone lauds the M3, as they should and everyone was amazed when the X-Pro1 came out, but now that there are newer Fuji's with more "advanced" features it is ,as they say in Yiddish, drek, according to many X-T1 reviewers. How come the M4 didn't make the M3 obsolete? Bottom line my X-Pro1 is still working the same when it was praised, so it is still a useful camera (for digital, yuk yuk).🙂 Just saying......😀

 

[Thardy]

Last week your man Kai Wong reviewed the Leica M3 for Digitalrev. It was pretty entertaining.

So the word "drek" is Yiddish?

 

[Bille]

So the word "drek" is Yiddish?

Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec;
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreck

🙂

 

[Vics]

It's true. My less-than-perfect M3 is still a very precise and comfortable camera to shoot, so I just keep shooting it as I watch all the digi-tastic kit-of-the-month cameras come and go. And the M3 just keeps on shooting...

 

[kshapero]

Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec;
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreck

🙂

There you are.:bang:

 

[thegman]

Isn't it funny how everyone lauds the M3, as they should and everyone was amazed when the X-Pro1 came out, but now that there are newer Fuji's with more "advanced" features it is ,as they say in Yiddish, drek, according to many X-T1 reviewers. How come the M4 didn't make the M3 obsolete? Bottom line my X-Pro1 is still working the same when it was praised, so it is still a useful camera (for digital, yuk yuk).🙂 Just saying......😀

Well, I suppose on a technical level, a better camera for film won't take higher quality pictures, but with digital, it might.

But I think it's all about marketing. 50 years ago Leica would have loved to have sold you model after model, but they didn't really try to.

Now that cameras are cheaper, margins are lower, and the stock markets expect neverending growth, technology companies are maybe under more pressure to make out you need every single new product.

 

[willie_901]

Well if you prefer changing lenses and enjoy the OVF, those improvements aren't so important. And the sensors are nearly identical if not identical.

 

[Spicy]

Digital is just code for a business model of "greedy corporations extorting money out of consumers by pushing upgrades nobody knew they 'needed'..."

Joking aside, it's not all bad. Certainly when viewed from a much further perspective, progress has been made, but to be serious, the constant upgrade-cycle of the most minor of changes is equal parts frustrating and necessary.

Interestingly (exact details are fuzzy, but the following is interesting), the Nikon pro film bodies were in service for a loooooong time. The F3 was in production and *nearly* unchanged for 20ish years.

Compare that with Canon's 400D, 500D, 550D, 600D, 650D, and 700D over a period of what, 5-6 years? I realize it's sort of impossible to try and do away with the middle ones, and that it's not quite as simple as just having had a 400D for 5 years and then proceed straight to coming out with a 700D, but... In some ways, it's just wasteful and crazy.

 

[HuubL]

The present day business model of the camera (or whatever for that matter) industry must be next century's collectors heaven. A virtually unlimited number of items to be collected. As a present day Barnack collector I'm a pitiful person with a wish list of only a few handfuls of camera bodies. My only plus is that the Barnacks will still be working when the Canikon digis will become schmuck (another Yiddish word 😉).

 

[Godfrey]

Gosh, what masuga dreck passes for conversation here sometimes!

G

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Gosh, what masuga dreck passes for conversation here sometimes!

Oi vey, oi vey! Haynt ale zayn kritiker. 😉

 

[kshapero]

Oi vey, oi vey! Haynt ale zayn kritiker. 😉

As my dear ol' mother used to say, Give them an inch and they will take a mile. Shish.