Time to save one's pennies...

If we aren't saving our money for the camera we at least have to start taking stock of our wide-angle lenses due to the smaller-than-35mm sensor.
 
forget the camera, I'd have to save a few pennies for the magazine, "LFI"- 8 issues for 70 dollars plus, does the subscription come with a summicron or something? :)

Todd
 
yeah, I would expect this, as with just about everything else leica makes, to be way way way over priced
 
I've looked through LFI a few times when it pops up at Borders - no way is it worth close to $10 an issue. You might expect it to be photography-heavy, and photography-wise to be reportage/PJ/documentary/etc.-heavy. You would be wrong.
 
I'd recommend waiting for the 2nd generation ... 1st gen digicams are notorious for their undocumented features (bugs).

Peter
 
peter_n said:
If I were interested in digital I'd buy the 5D I think.

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5D is 3 times the size of a M6. Isn't the "intimate feel" of a rangefinder the main reason we love the rangefinder?
 
$6000 (or whatever it'll cost, in that ballpark) less-than-full-frame, 10MP, and from a company with one foot in bankruptcy? The risk-reward ratio just isn't there for me.
 
MarkM6 said:
5D is 3 times the size of a M6. Isn't the "intimate feel" of a rangefinder the main reason we love the rangefinder?
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Well, it's certainly one of them Mark! My reply is "what Ben Z said". :) He said it more succinctly than I ever could...

 
It is just me or does anyone feels that in years to come (and not so distant), some clever 3rd-party company will invent and mass produce a digital back for existing Leica film bodies and sell them for less than $1k? ... Well, that's what I'm now holding out for :)
 
I'd rather pay a premium for something *once* that was built with quality and pays their labour more than fairly, than five different times for something that'll break because it was made in a sweatshop.
 
Ben Z said:
$6000 (or whatever it'll cost, in that ballpark) less-than-full-frame, 10MP, and from a company with one foot in bankruptcy? The risk-reward ratio just isn't there for me.
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For some of us, it's ALL about the interface, and we're willing to pay for it! This from someone who chose a Mac in 1984 rather than something more sensible like a DEC Rainbow. :p I'm with Gabriel on quality.
 
I am DEFINITELY saving my pennies. I own a Canon 20D, which is a fine piece of work. However, what I want next is not a full-frame digital SLR but a compact rangefinder that will shoot digital images but use my fabulous Voigtlander and Leica lenses. And I will go on shooting film side by side for quite a while, too.

I am a big fan of available light, and my fast lenses combined with an excellent digital sensor (which I'm sure the Leica will have) will be awesome. I also am a wideangle to normal person. I could wish for a full-frame Leica sensor, but the fact is that full frame sensors with today's technology may not get the best results with wideangle lenses. Some improvements will come in new lenses, like the new wideangles Leica seems to be promising. Others will be in improved sensors. Meanwhile I will use my ultrawide Voigtlander lenses on my film bodies when I want the ultimate in ultrawide and on the Leica digital when I can deal with the 1/3 multiplier (my 12mm will be a 16mm on a Leica digital).

To give Canon credit, their SLRs, at high ISO speeds, produce fantastically good images even at ISO 3200. But... think what you could be getting if that kind of digital sensor technology is married with world-class high speed lenses, like Leica's 35mm or 50mm ones.
And, again, I would rather have an unobtrusive, quite, small, compact rangefinder than an SLR.
 
regit said:
Unfortunately for me, high price doesn't always equate to quality ... :(
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Agreed, though the reverse is more predictable. That is, quality comes at a price.
 
Full frame would be a A4 sized sensor! 35 mm has only historical connotations for me. If the lenses fit the format and the quality I am totally happy! I have my money saved for this baby :)

$6000 (or whatever it'll cost, in that ballpark) less-than-full-frame, 10MP, and from a company with one foot in bankruptcy? The risk-reward ratio just isn't there for me.
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Well, if don't like it, you don't have to buy it. Leica is not the IRS,taking your money by brute force.
 
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