Originally posted by jogiba Review: Leica M (Typ 240) - The Phoblographer
There are people on wall street that make a over a million $ an hour and pay $90 million for a condo on 57th Street so paying for this Leica would be like me or you paying fifty cents for a pack of gum.
I realize that and mentioned as much in my original post - what's the point other than it looks different? If I'm one of those guys that makes millions and demand the best of the best, this isn't it. To me, this camera screams of the hipster love affair with everything they love - Fuji X100 series, PBR, etc...nothing particularly special about it, but it bucks the norm of Nikon and Canon, it's not the popular craft and micro brews, etc.
Does it do anything spectacularly well that other cameras can't do that warrants the price tag? If it does, great. If it's because it says Leica on it and that's the only thing anyone can come up with, then pffff, I'll stick with Pentax and keep my $6,700.
If people make outrageous amounts of money and demand the best, I get that, but this $8,000 camera isn't the best by any standard other than digital manual focus rangefinder, and I'm guessing that isn't an incredibly high demand item.
All of the reasons people say Pentax shouldn't or couldn't financially justify the cost of a manual everything or only including aperture priority DSLR in the form factor of an MX or LX - most of them are examples of why this camera exists with an $8,000 price tag, and slapping Leica on it surely helps that cause.
Originally posted by tele_pathic As an English professor making a paltry ~$55,000/year, would I buy a Leica M_____? No, I could not justify that cost. As the winner of a $300,000,000.00 powerball lotto winner, would I buy a Leica M____? You're gawd dam right I would.
With unlimited funds comes unlimited fun!
Would it be "better" than my K-5ii? No. Would it be "different"? Yes.
Watch Digital Rev's review of the Leica on youtube, and you'll see what I mean.
I saw his review and he seemed kind of torn on it - nice images, something special about working with it, but the updated FOV lines in the viewfinder were a negative.
Niche, goofy almost, and specialty with low demand don't normally come with $8,000 stickers and when you add in the lenses, you're scratching at $20,000 to put 4-5 primes in a kit with this camera.
Originally posted by stevebrot If you need to have answer, you obviously don't understand the question.
Steve
No need to get Big Lebowski or Tao of Steve over a camera. I'd rather have a film Leica than what they're offering in the digital lineup these days.