Leica Store Robberies - San Francisco store is latest for 180k

[wizbang 13]

all i see is that seam in the floor

[Nicholas Carey]

So. my buddy Mark always has his camera bag with either his Leica digital rangefinder or his Fuji rangefinder. he takes amazing photos but it's always a bit of a hassle, getting it out, setting the multi menu, changing lenses, bracketing shots, it takes time loose some intimacy.

I took this photo of him with my iPhone while he was still setting up to to take a shot.

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My Olympus OM-2, old-Sokol, taking a shot is a couple seconds. Flip the switch on, focus, shoot, assuming you've preset the aperture to something reasonable for conditions.) A little less if the power switch is already on (but it really kills the battery).

[Nicholas Carey]

With modern mirrorless technology do cameras have to look like traditional cameras? Ie: black boxes with cylinders sticking out the front.

No. That arrangement is based on having a roll of film with a feed spool, a take-up spool and lens and shutter in the middle.

There have been lots of attempts at non-conventional designs. They tend to fail in the market.

What I want is a digital camera with a large square sensor so I don't have to thing about "portrait? Or landscape?" There's Hasselblad (at $33k for the body, and it's a 4x5 sensor), but pretty much every everything is a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Admittedly the Hasselblad is a 100 megapixel sensor,so you've got beaucoups pixels to spare.

But a large, square sensor would make a lot of sense.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

What I likw about the Leica shown in #5 is the strap looking stout enough to prevent wory about failure. The stram on my Fugi doesn't really seem stout enough to be dependable under stress.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Ah, I see.

Five to ten thousand on ebay.

Confusing naming - there is also a Fujifilm digital X-T2.



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Shees! - They've gone up - bigly.

[Joe (SoCal)]

I'm going to the Leica museum in LA tomorrow tomorrow, I'll report back

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[Paul Pless]

Shees! - They've gone up - bigly.

fook'n hipsters

[Ted Hoppe]

I'm going to the Leica museum in LA tomorrow tomorrow, I'll report back

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Boing! Relics of the past.

You can take my 12:30 reservations at Spagos.