spylaw4 Posted March 7, 2008 Share #21 Â Posted March 7, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) ...think that's why they had a loyalty discount coupon program for existing leica customers...may want to try this route if the program is still on... Â The problem with that is ..... it's preaching to the (semi-)converted. It's new blood that is needed. Bring more people into the Leica world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thomas Edwards Posted March 7, 2008 Share #22 Â Posted March 7, 2008 The problem with that is ..... it's preaching to the (semi-)converted. It's new blood that is needed. Bring more people into the Leica world. Â ...yes...true...but in this case the original poster had/has a digi2, i believe... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankA Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share #23 Â Posted March 7, 2008 Yes, I do have the D2 and the darn thing just won't die on me. The senor just keeps on ticking. I am in the process of deciding on a dslr system. 4/3 or canon so I can use Leica R lenses. I am interested in the 5D but get put off by the quality control issues of canon lenses and the possibility of having to modify the mirror to get leica lenses to work. I can't see spending a lot on canon lenses just to ship them off for service. I don't get how canon users find that acceptable. Crazy. But the quality of the image from a 5D is excellent. I like four thirds but I am not sure of image quality. The Oly 510 looks interesting and is cheap for a body. Can upgrade later much easier. I have read of too many issue on the E3. I don't need the latest and greatest. I like the idea of the digilux 3 but $2,500 is outrageous for that camera in today's market. Regardless, I will be making a decision this weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_lague Posted March 7, 2008 Share #24 Â Posted March 7, 2008 Actually I was not haggling with Samy's on a Leica. I went in to buy a Sony professional DV video camera, and the current street price everywhere was $2800 and they wanted way over $4000 for it, and when I asked them to get real they were quite insulting. I would pay more than the street price to buy locally, but I was not going to get ripped by a price higher than suggested retail by Sony. Â Maybe the salesperson was having a bad day. It was years before I ever bought a big piece of equipment from them even though they were my local dealer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted March 7, 2008 Share #25 Â Posted March 7, 2008 Seriously, why would you want to buy a Digilux 3? Â Because it is kewl, and different, has a fine lens, an excellent control layout, and mostly because it pisses off people who think the only real Leicas are Ms... Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnastovall Posted March 7, 2008 Share #26 Â Posted March 7, 2008 The new vile website doesn't have the coupon program in the customer area anymore but under products there's this strange mutant thing called a V-Lux 1. Â Which look looks for all the world like a Panasonic L10. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted March 7, 2008 Share #27 Â Posted March 7, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) It doesn't look anything like an L-10. An L-10 is an SLR. Â Panasonic DMC-L10, previewed: Digital Photography Review Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnastovall Posted March 8, 2008 Share #28  Posted March 8, 2008 It doesn't look anything like an L-10. An L-10 is an SLR. Your are right. I now see there is new section for the Digilux 3 on that terrible website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grduprey Posted March 9, 2008 Share #29 Â Posted March 9, 2008 Seriously, why would you want to buy a Digilux 3? Â Mark, Â Since I do not have a DMR, and cannot see the current prices for one, and not sure if the R10 is going to show up at Photokina, the Digilux 3 or another 4/3 camera is the only way i can use my R lenses on a digital. Yes there is the Canon DSLRs, but I cannot get myself to buy one, and Nikon cannot use the R lenses. I will be at Photokina, and sure hope the R10 does show up and at a decent price. Â Gene Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastor_chuck Posted March 9, 2008 Share #30 Â Posted March 9, 2008 ...have you checked ebay, etc?...or going with the lumix version (heard the L1 will be re-released at around usd1,200)... Â So ... what is this rumor about the L1? I missed the Amazon deal and keep watching for it to come up again. $1200 is a little too much for me to swallow since I know it can be sold for $800. Â pastor_chuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted March 9, 2008 Share #31 Â Posted March 9, 2008 The problem with that is ..... it's preaching to the (semi-)converted. It's new blood that is needed. Bring more people into the Leica world. Â Yes, but if you listen to a lot of people on here, they don't WANT to bring new ideas and new blood into Leicaland. If the M8 hadn't looked like an M7 or M6 or MP... people would have been screaming. Â It might have been better for Leica if they had kept the RF concept but changed the things that hurt the idea in 2008. All those microlenses, and a necessarily thin IR filter, and coding on the lenses could have been avoided if they had changed the mount and started in with a clean slate. Â Look, if Apple could survive tossing out entire operating systems and processors because the new concept worked a lot better, so could Leica. If they could bring the price of the bodies down by two or three grand that would have brought in lots of new blood. Â We know you can make an RF with AF 'cause Contax did it on a limited budget (and no doubt some of you perfectionist whiners will, indeed, whine), but the G1 and G2 could take some damn fine pix, there was an unstepped zoom lens, motor drive, fast metal shutter... Â You can make an RF just different enough to appeal to new kids while still getting the old guard to buy in. The M8 though still carries around the baggage of the old system with it. If the RF concept is really going to compete with SLRs, including really small SLRs like the E-420, it needs to change, and not just in a way that it is now, which is to keep the same lenses and 'finder and shape and be an M... with a digital back. What Leica needs is an interchangeable lens Canon G with a GOOD finder. What Leica needs is to bring this camera in at a price of... $1700 sans lens, maybe $2000 with a standard lens, or a basic 24-110mm equivalent zoom. Â It could be done. Â Or, hell, come out with your own Four Thirds and Nikon version lenses (and I don't mean Panasonic). Do what Zeiss is doing, selling their own T* lenses on Nikons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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