Some interesting news on the "Leica" compatible digital rangefinder.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04102202epson_rd1dateprice.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04102202epson_rd1dateprice.asp
AJ23 said:US$2999 looks like the MSRP, street price should be around US$2400? Still close to S$4k++.
Anyway, what things about Leica is cheap?
XXX Boy said:This is not a Leica le! :dunno:
XXX Boy said:This is not a Leica le! :dunno:
canturn said:Leica will come out with their own, then you'll see a whole market flooded with 2nd hand RD-1 :devil:
Doubt leica will just sit back and watch RD-1 sell w/o doing anything about it?
canturn said:Leica will come out with their own, then you'll see a whole market flooded with 2nd hand RD-1 :devil:
Doubt leica will just sit back and watch RD-1 sell w/o doing anything about it?
Stoned said:Just some thoughts.
If im not mistaken, the legendary Leitz's 3D effect is achieved via a sharper image centre than the image corners on the image circle. Since the RD-1 has a cropped sensor, won't the very reason people buy Leitz equipment be nullified?!
XXX Boy said:I think Leica will launch its Digital back for its M-series camera too....haha...just imagine you can still use your 50 years old M3 with a digital back!!! How can the modern be without the classic?
canturn said:Leica wouldn't launch a digital back for the m-series. They'll probably make one that's full frame based on the RD-1 prototype.
canturn said:Have to disagree with this. The 3D effect comes from the tonality that the lens can render and thus giving you different seperation of blacks. I can show you some samples of shots printed at 11x14 taken by the Leica M and the Canon L lenses. I'm comparing the exact same scene taken under same lighting condition and you can see how well the tones seperates, thus giving it the 3D texture.
It's quite subtle tho.