Graham Line
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laptoprob said:
Exactly. Bright finder good for a 28, durable finish, compact size, accurate AE, TTL flash capability, compact size and an R/F that rarely if ever needs tweaking.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Hexar RF, of course. Same goes for the Hexanon lenses.
mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
Couldn't agree more.KoNickon said:
...Mike
pvdhaar
Peter
Konica Hexar AF, without a doubt.
suzi_q
suziq.nu
''Hexar RFs" by Leica ('s' for silent mode of course)
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varjag
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Ok, the poll part has mostly failed (perhaps predictably): I've missed some of the most popular options so far, namely Hexar RF and Minolta CLE.
Sorry about M5, was just trying to stir some controversy, since it is so often mentioned as a camera that Leca shouldn't have made
Sorry about M5, was just trying to stir some controversy, since it is so often mentioned as a camera that Leca shouldn't have made
Ororaro
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varjag said:Ok, the poll part has mostly failed (perhaps predictably): I've missed some of the most popular options so far, namely Hexar RF and Minolta CLE.
Sorry about M5, was just trying to stir some controversy, since it is so often mentioned as a camera that Leca shouldn't have made
I've never heard the M5 was the camera that shouldn't have been made. Actually it's even crazier: It's the camera that people quote other people to have said it's the Leica that should never have been made, but the people that say that are actually using the M5 and lovng it. Haven't you noticed this? It's just people quoting other people that quote other people but there's nothing more to it.
the M5 is just different and not a mistake, unlike the people that quote other people that quote other peole want us to believe it was a Leica mistake.
Jeroen
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Actually I'm glad Leica never made the Hexar AF, otherwise it would have been way more expensive!
oscroft
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The Bessa-R (or at least, an entry-level 35mm rangefinder)
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Magus
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Photar
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I am not too sure I understand the question (why is the M5 there?) but I think the Nikon F2 would have been a great addition to the R-System. At least there was the SL2. I don't miss anything in the M series.
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darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
The Contax RF system.
MDenton
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Leica 111G with through the lens metering
Michael I.
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medium format RF
Tuolumne
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NB23 said:
The M5 is considered a "mistake" because Leica sold so few of them. They sat and sat on dealers shelves. Goes to show how profoundly conservative Leica users are. I have two of them, and it is a great camera with the best light meter Leica ever put into its cameras. That's probably why the M8 loads its SD card as if it were a bottom loader film camera. Leica users hate change.
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RdEoSg
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Contax T2!
*drooools*
*drooools*
VinceC
Veteran
>> Leica users hate change.<<
Maybe Leica should try to get back to its roots of innovation it pioneered in the 1920s-1950s.
An M7 and M8 could be retained for conservative high-end purchasers, but the the company could then innovate with an entirely new digital product line in the $1,500 range ... a Barnack-sized cropped-sensor camera with very small, fast interchangeable primes (plus perhaps a small zoom) that mates up with some kind of zooming viewfinder that still incorporates framelines, and (g-d forbid) perhaps some sort of autofocus.
Emphasis is ability to get DSLR-quality photos out of a very small camera that can be as automated or as manual as the user desires.
Marketing ideas: "A new Leica for the next hundred years." "Excellence comes in small packages" "Capture the world in the palm of your hand" "Big pictures from small cameras (wasn't that Barnack's slogan?" A picture of it next to the UR-Leica.
Nahhh. It'll never happen.
Maybe Leica should try to get back to its roots of innovation it pioneered in the 1920s-1950s.
An M7 and M8 could be retained for conservative high-end purchasers, but the the company could then innovate with an entirely new digital product line in the $1,500 range ... a Barnack-sized cropped-sensor camera with very small, fast interchangeable primes (plus perhaps a small zoom) that mates up with some kind of zooming viewfinder that still incorporates framelines, and (g-d forbid) perhaps some sort of autofocus.
Emphasis is ability to get DSLR-quality photos out of a very small camera that can be as automated or as manual as the user desires.
Marketing ideas: "A new Leica for the next hundred years." "Excellence comes in small packages" "Capture the world in the palm of your hand" "Big pictures from small cameras (wasn't that Barnack's slogan?" A picture of it next to the UR-Leica.
Nahhh. It'll never happen.
edodo
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VinceC said:
Hello, when I look the other day the new olympus E400 it was little as a M but lighter! and if you use a lens adapter with some vintage pancake lens you have a nice combo for low price.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
It would have to be this re ently sighted behemoth would it not?
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-8738-8908
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-8738-8908