Maggie_O Posted August 5, 2007 Share #21 Â Posted August 5, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) It sounds and looks interesting but has been vapourware for almost a year. Must have run into a serious problem somewhere along the path to market. Â I agree. I'm dubious of the entire enterprise, to tell the truth. Â That said, a Leica GX-100, with a tri-focal lens and real rangefinder would be a great alternative to an M8 for those of us who can't quite justify the five grand for the M. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dfarkas Posted August 5, 2007 Share #22 Â Posted August 5, 2007 How about a digital CM? Â Made in Germany. Titanium and leather body. 35mm equiv. Summicron or Summarit lens with AF and MF. A and P exposure modes. Hot shoe for SF24D. 4/3 8MP CCD sensor. Maybe $1,500. Â Any takers if this were ever made? Â I think it would be great for all those situations you want to hand over your M8 for a passerby to take a picutre of you and your wife, and you don't feel like giving a 20 minute lesson on rangefinder focusing. Â David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie_O Posted August 5, 2007 Share #23 Â Posted August 5, 2007 One wonders now with the focus on complete lack of noise and resolution whether anyone used 35mm when they where shooting film. After all there were compact medium format cameras available like the Rollei TLR and Mamiya 7 that produced much higher resolution, smoother tonality and much less noise. Now that all those 35mm shooters have gone digital nothing short of large format image quality will do? Â I did shoot medium format rangefinders so I'm happy with the M8 and look forward to ever increasing IQ. But I'd like a small format alternative for those times when I'd like the grit and aesthetic of 35mm and the reportorial freedom of those original tiny Leicas. I must say I have been inspired by the look of Mitch's, inmants and others stuff to get back to my roots (shooting an M4 with TriX back in the 70's) only I'd rather do it with digital. Â Â When I was working for newspapers, writing and shooting, I had a Nikon F3 (with a 28mm prime) and an Olympus XA (the original rangefinder version) and I shot either Tri-X or HP5 and I got hooked on the wide angle, from the hip sort of pictures that produced. Â To me, the D-Lux 3 feels very much like my XA- a camera that can produce stunningly sharp images at slower speeds and striking from-the-hip images at higher speeds, all while being completely unobtrusive. If I had my Nikon with me I was obviously "from the paper" but with the XA I was just some kid with a camera who usually went unnoticed by those I wanted to photograph. The D-Lux 3 has that same sort of stealthiness. (Or at least I thought it did- after I got done shooting this set of photos the manager of the market stopped me and my mother on the way to our car, introduced herself, and asked if I needed any more information for my article!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted August 5, 2007 Share #24  Posted August 5, 2007 How about a digital ...Made in Germany. Titanium and leather body. Any takers if this were ever made?...The Made in Germany is no advantage at all for a digital camera. Titanium and leather does not add anything either: I'm quite happy with the magnesium and rubber grip of the GR-D, or the feel and looks of the D-Lux 3 for that matter. And there are enough 4/3rds-sensor cameras already.  —Mitch/Potomac, MD Flickr: Photos from Mitch Alland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankg Posted August 5, 2007 Author Share #25  Posted August 5, 2007 How about a digital CM?  Made in Germany. Titanium and leather body. 35mm equiv. Summicron or Summarit lens with AF and MF. A and P exposure modes. Hot shoe for SF24D. 4/3 8MP CCD sensor. Maybe $1,500.   I just don't think its feasable. I don't think Leica could fit a 4/3 sensor into a package that size judging from the girth of their current 4/3 offerings and if they had to develop and manufacture the camera it would cost $2500+  I look at the work of photographers like this on film: Paolo Pellegrin  That sort of resolution and detail is possible with the current small Panasonic chips in B+W -they are just not packaged in a way conducive to that sort of shooting. I'm talking about existing plain vanilla technology used by current Leica/Panasonic digicams with a different user interface. It's not like developing an M, R or even a CM from scratch. I'd think the risk reward ratio is great requiring more in the way of imagination then development funds.  That should be the advantage of being a small company the ability to be more creative, think outside the box and target smaller niche markets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisfoto Posted August 5, 2007 Share #26 Â Posted August 5, 2007 I have used the leica D-Lux 3 for about 1 month. I think, in contrast to the R-Digital Module, there is a noise issue. However, if you can get enough light at ISO 100 the shots can be impressive. For example. Welcome to the Stephen Harris archive. Is a portrait that was taken with a studio setup, at the ICP in New York. I used the flash on the D-Lux3 to trigger the studio flashes, and the studio flash dominates the scene. It seems that this camera needs a tripod or a lot of flash to make great images. These small cameras need a hot shoe. The raw processing is essential, (why the Canon G-7 Fails.) With luck, some day, we will be able to put an M type 1.4 lens on these types of cameras, with the new Kodak sensor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted August 6, 2007 Share #27  Posted August 6, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I ...It seems that this camera needs a tripod or a lot of flash to make great images...No way! I don't agree at all:       —Mitch/Potomac, MD http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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