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i'm wondering if the g1 will have some or any impact on rd1 sales.
would you get one over the other or both or none?
joe
would you get one over the other or both or none?
joe
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simonclivehughe
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Joe,
Two different beasts really, other than I guess you mean the ability to use M glass? Personally, I'd get the R-D1 if I could for the same money... I had two of them before and loved them, actually more than the M8s I had.
Two different beasts really, other than I guess you mean the ability to use M glass? Personally, I'd get the R-D1 if I could for the same money... I had two of them before and loved them, actually more than the M8s I had.
barjohn
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It depends. If you have really good eyesight and can focus an RF in low light and want the RF way of seeing the world, then the RD-1 or M8 are your only digital options. If you want a camera that can use your M mount glass or a whole range of other lenses with adapters and is easy to focus, even in low light (yes, I know there are some that say they can't because the EVF is too noisy in extremely low light forgetting they couldn't even see an image much less the focusing patch in similar conditions) but also lets you use zoom lenses that are optically very good to excellent with more to come. Of course all of this flexibility wouldn't be worth much if the image quality were not up to par but the G1 image quality rivals that of cameras costing far more than the G1. In the GetDPI forum a comparison between the G1 and M8 using the same Leica lens is almost indistinguishable. If it weren't for a few minor issues like difference in DOF and image size along with a slight difference in color saturation most people would not be able to tell which came from which camera. With a 10 to 1 or higher price difference you would think you would get a lot more for your $ but for some prestige outweighs their pocketbooks.
Tuolumne
Veteran
Let me just put in my pitch for a Leica m4/3rds body along the lines of the CLE. That would just be soooo great!
/T
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mawz
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And sadly Leica won't do this for the same reason they killed the CL. It'll hurt M sales (even if it will make the overall market and Leica itself stronger).
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no, but panasonic could...they almost did with the g1.
Tuolumne
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It actually won't affect M8 sales at all. If you think about it, the problem with the CLE is that it took exactly the same pictures as the full-sized M cameras it competed with. That's because they both took the same sensor, i.e. film. The m4/3rds and M8 use completely different sensors and so will have completely different image results. Or at least different enough that marketing can keep the two differentiated. Also, since the crop factors are radically different that is an even bigger point of diffrentiation.
So, now is the best time for Leica to offer a low-end digital camera ala the CLE/m4/3rds and a high-end digital camera ala the M8.
/T
