[LRflex] Re: R-10 Survey Results...

Aram wrote:

>As someone who DID complete the survey, many thanks for this.  Many options
>seem to be a wash - close to 50/50.  Some options are very strongly wanted
>or not wanted.  With such a small survey, it will be difficult to assign any
>conficence interfals to many of the options, but it is interesting, and I
>think you hit upon all the major options that Leica could take.
>

It is indeed a pity that apathy is alive and well, and that more 
people didn't answer the questionnaire.

What is not generally realised about these sort of polls is the 
importance of statistical error - commonly called standard 
deviations. Most polls are happy with a plus/minus result of two SDs, 
which means there's a 95+% probability of the results being accurate 
within these limits for a random sample.

See:

http://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml

for a pretty good layman's explanation.

The bigger the random sample, the more accurate the result is likely to be.

David's survey, of course, is not conducted amongst a random sample. 
For instance, 100% of the respondents to the survey know what a Leica 
R is. In the general population, I doubt if the figure is 1%.

Nevertheless, this is useful feedback to Leica, and bouquets to David 
for taking the time and trouble to make it happen.

The one question he didn't ask is "Would you buy an R10 at this 
price?" I wouldn't, and neither, regrettably, would I buy an M8. It's 
a great camera undoubtedly. See my shots, if you haven't already, at:

http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor

and follow the Wetzlar link.

But I, for one, am very happy with my film Ms (not to mention my film 
LTMs), and recently bought a Nikon D200 body at about a quarter of 
the price of the M8. This is my only digital camera. Not only does it 
deliver excellent results, but it will also work with most of my 
large collection of manual focus Nikkors. No lens bar-coding - you 
just tell the camera what focal length you're using and the maximum 
aperture thereof. The camera even remembers the last one you used....

  What I would be interested in, and so far I can't find any info, is 
how many advance orders for the M8 Leica actually has. Be assured the 
R10 will not happen unless the M8 is a runaway success, which I'm 
sure we all hope it will be.

Best

Alex
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