Good points except for the last one. I, too, thought the R8 was butt ugly.
How could anyone think of owning one. Well, it grows on you, especially
after you apid $1300 for a new one a while back. When I only saw it once in
a while in an ad or in a store, it sure was ugly. Now that I see it every
day and handle it every day, it looks great. The feel is supurb, even if it
does weigh a bit more that I would like. A regret is that I bought it and
about two years later the R9 comes out and it had gone on a diet and lost an
appreciable amount of weight (kind of like me this year - 25 pounds in 3
months to a slim trim 180 lbs). To my wife, I was an R8 (butt ugly at
first) after 31 years I hope I am now I'm an R9....
Aram
From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LRFlex] Re: Leica DMR Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:16:32 +0200
Interesting point Doug,
What it actually, IMO, boils down to at the end of the day is that many of us have had the dream of owning the legendary Leica in our early years. The "Low(er)" cost alternatives are not the things to dream about, I've heard that the Japanese say that certain things have a certain "essence" or "soul", the Germans say "Wertigkeit", something beyond mere value.
The act of buying one is, I believe, for most of us, the culmination of a long time of dreaming and saving.
Leica has no real charisma if you are able to just go out and say "Nice camera, yes I'll take two"
Paying more than you can afford for a camera makes it particularly special, when it then helps you take the shots you always dreamed of this also adds to the legend.
The Leica doesn't make you a better photographer but it's gratifying to know that if you use it right it will deliver the highest possible quality .
Similarly expensive, a Japanese knife doesn't make you a better cook, a Lamborghini Diablo or a Shelby Cobra doesn't make you a better driver but the inherent charisma does do something emotional to the owner that common everyday things don't.
cheers
Douglas
Personally I don't want a DMR because I'd have to stick it on the back of what I think is one of the ugliest cameras ever to come out of the Leica stable.An R7 digital back would have had me drooling. So I have to make do with a simple Canon 20D - which I can only use with Canon, Zeiss, Pentax M42, Leica-R irrespective of the number of cams,Contax/ Yashica, Tamron, Tokina, Sigma .......................... lenses.
Douglas Herr wrote:David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... the 20D comes **very** close at 1/4 the price
No disputing the value represented by the 20D but this begs the question.... hasn't Leica always been a premium brand? Haven't there always been lower-cost alternatives delivering good quality? It appears that to many on this list the 20D's performance is good enough - so why have you used Leica before? Were the lower-cost film cameras not good enough?
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