FastFashnReloaded Posted September 16, 2006 Share #41 Â Posted September 16, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I still have my 5D and I love it like a child. Â Something like Pip from Great Expectations? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share #42 Â Posted September 16, 2006 I still have my 5D and I love it like a child. Â Geewhiz, somebody shoot me with a Telyt Tech 9 immediately. I wanna be flat dead plastickey now. :mad: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipNovaMac Posted September 16, 2006 Share #43  Posted September 16, 2006 Chip NEW: LEICA D-LUX 3 Price approx. 600 € or ~$750 US  Thanks. I may be wrong, but a well known NYC Leica dealer mentioned IIRC a $995US for this camera in another forum. But it was deleted before he could reply to my pricing concerns.  I love my LX1, and it seems for me at least, the LX2/D-Lux # is worth the upgrade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAG Posted September 16, 2006 Share #44  Posted September 16, 2006 Official price (source : my Leica dealer) : 599 €. Instead of 799 € for the D-Lux 2 one year ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
odklizec Posted September 16, 2006 Share #45  Posted September 16, 2006 Hi folks! Any certain news regarding the D-LUX3 ISO range? Technical data PDF on Leica web says ISO 80-1600 but the brochure and product info PDF ISO 80-400, so what's true?  UPDATE Heh..and even more confusion..I just found that the Product Info from Leica web is slightly different than the one at this forum (in Leica News). But according the document details, the PDF from Leica web is a bit older (over week). So I assume, the newer (updated) one is correct about the D-LUX3 ISO range..the ISO mystery is solved..I hope  the one from Leica web.. http://www.leica-camera.us/assets/file/download.php?filename=file_1231.pdf  the one from Leica News announcement at this forum.. http://www.leica-camera-user.com/attachments/digital-m-m8-release/8672d1158180168-leica-announcement-new-leica-digital-cameras-dlux3_en.pdf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gepetto Posted September 16, 2006 Share #46 Â Posted September 16, 2006 Pavel not sure were you are getting the PDF you liinked but on Leica Camera AG US website the technical data sheet listed shows a range from 80 to 1600. The PDF listed by Leica here on this website also shows 80-1600. It does appear the brochures on Leica Camera AG are only showing a range of 80-400 but the technical data sheet in the same location is showing the before mentioned range of 80-1600. Â It would appear Leica has their brochures and technical data sheets all crossed up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffreyg Posted September 20, 2006 Share #47 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Camerawest (Monterey) has the DLux3 listed for $599. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Mitchum Posted September 20, 2006 Share #48 Â Posted September 20, 2006 POPFLASH has the D-Lux3 listed for $599 and the Digilux 3 for $2499. Are these actually in stock already? He has his own photos of each camera on the website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
odklizec Posted September 20, 2006 Share #49  Posted September 20, 2006 Ah sorry gepetto, I overlooked your answer..  Yes, I know, the Technical Data PDF on Leica web shows ISO 80-1600. But there are also other two PDF documents on the same D-LUX3 product page..the first one is called Brochures and the second one Product Info. And in both of these PDF files is mentioned ISO 80-400. And to make this mess even more confusing, the Product Info PDF linked on this site (in Leica News announcement) has latter creation date and ISO range 80-1600 So what's true? Leica support seems not responding user's questions. I mailed them twice..no answer yet.  Pavel not sure were you are getting the PDF you liinked but on Leica Camera AG US website the technical data sheet listed shows a range from 80 to 1600. The PDF listed by Leica here on this website also shows 80-1600. It does appear the brochures on Leica Camera AG are only showing a range of 80-400 but the technical data sheet in the same location is showing the before mentioned range of 80-1600. It would appear Leica has their brochures and technical data sheets all crossed up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pekem Posted September 20, 2006 Share #50 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Smart move. Panasonic buying out Olympus would be similar to Sony buying out Minolta... good parallel business tactic. Â I think the question is; how secure is Leica's future? Panasonic might well have considered buying Leica from the investment bankers that currently hold about 90% of the share capital, now that Hermes have dumped their holding. It did strike me as being odd that Hermes would bail Leica out and then at the time of the launch of the latest Leica offerings, when a return to profit might be expected, sell off their holding in the company. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 20, 2006 Share #51 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Albert - Â The last 20 photos on the 3rd New York page of our site, and all the photos on the 4th New York page are from my FX-01. We'll go to Papua New Guinea soon and I hope to get some interesting underwater shots from the FX-01 to post. Most of the "dry shots" will be DMR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted September 20, 2006 Share #52 Â Posted September 20, 2006 With yesterday's lackluster announcement of the E-400 there are rumors that Panasonic may indeed be buying them out. Olympus is in trouble. Â care to expand on that ? Â current market synopsis for Olympus: For the three months ended 30 June 2006, OLYMPUS CORPORATION's revenues increased 5% to Y225.54B. The Company's net income totaled Y7.12B, up from Y403.0M. Revenues reflect higher sales from imaging, medical and life science segments due to higher sales in Japan and overseas. Higher net income also benefited from favorable gross and operating margins, and decreased other non-operating expenses. Â Riley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Mitchum Posted September 20, 2006 Share #53 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Not my rumor but they were talking about their photographic business and investment into the 4/3 format. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share #54 Â Posted September 20, 2006 In fact, the D-lux 3 could be the professional's shealth camera. Silent and almost difficult to detect. Silent shutter too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Mitchum Posted September 20, 2006 Share #55 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Looks like the aggressive noise reduction of the LX-2 is causing some serious problems even at ISO 100 and even when RAW is used. Â SAMPLE Â The bricks of the building have been obliterated. They no longer exist. Lets hope the Leica firmware leaves the RAW output alone. NR should be switchable or reduced at lower ISO speeds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share #56 Â Posted September 20, 2006 Actually the thread mentions that the LX2 was a defective sample so we can't conclude anything... Â Otherwise the LX2 seems to be the Leica pocket knife (M8 is not pocketable!!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipNovaMac Posted September 21, 2006 Share #57  Posted September 21, 2006 OK, I'll try to get those up by tomorrow AM ish. Cheers,  Sean  Any luck?  Hope you can get a Panasonic and Leica version of the same camera.In some ways doing tests like that would drive some of us that are sitting on the sidelines in joining in on your paid reviews. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share #58 Â Posted September 23, 2006 Is the Dlux3 review up yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobold Posted September 23, 2006 Share #59 Â Posted September 23, 2006 I know that this has probably been said a million times (well, a few, anyway), but that little camera needs a simple optical finder. Even approximate frame lines would be just fine. I would not even care if it was as distorted as the old Kodak's finders were; it's just that I simply cannot use a camera at arm's length via an LCD. Â Does anyone else feel the same way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted September 23, 2006 Share #60 Â Posted September 23, 2006 Why ask if you know the answer!!!???? ......you saw the picture of the camera... someones reaction to the camera follows.... and the gorilla works out an alternative Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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