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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Justinr on August 14, 2009, 04:32:34 pm

Title: So, what's wrong with the Leica R's?
Post by: Justinr on August 14, 2009, 04:32:34 pm

I've been casting around looking at Leicas and am amazed at the price difference between the R's and the M's. Why so? Are the lenses less worthy, are the body's less reliable, is it a fashion thing? I really am quite puzzled.

Justin.

Title: So, what's wrong with the Leica R's?
Post by: telyt on August 14, 2009, 04:56:03 pm

Quote from: Justinr

I've been casting around looking at Leicas and am amazed at the price difference between the R's and the M's. Why so? Are the lenses less worthy, are the body's less reliable, is it a fashion thing? I really am quite puzzled.

Justin.

Fewer creature comforts.  Most of the glass is awesome.  The bodies: some are indestructible, some are only OK, and the last two can be used with a (scarce) 16-bit digital back.

Title: So, what's wrong with the Leica R's?
Post by: Christopher on August 14, 2009, 11:34:27 pm

Quote from: telyt

Fewer creature comforts.  Most of the glass is awesome.  The bodies: some are indestructible, some are only OK, and the last two can be used with a (scarce) 16-bit digital back.

Not all but most Leica R glass is amazing. I mean the 19mm, 28, 35, 100, 180 and so on. They work well on canon or Leica.

The main problem, the R line is discontinued. So that's it.

Title: So, what's wrong with the Leica R's?
Post by: vgogolak on August 15, 2009, 07:40:07 pm

Nothing wrong with R lenses  
I am getting pretty good 40MP cropped images from a 60MP P65+..

see the thread in the MF section  

:-)

Victor