Tape5

Chill dudes.

What is ten years between friends? I call ten years recent. You call ten years a lifetime.

Only the future will tell. The assumption by a whole lot of Leica martyrs is that Hassy and Phase 1 are going to sit back while Leica sneaks into their bread box.

Besides, what is it to you? Chances are none of you have ever used a Leica and never will.
You could always do better in life sticking your neck veins out for your own burnt sausages.

If Leica believes they can crack the already very loyal commercial and fashion market with a new system on the strength of their lens tech they are dreaming.

They can sell / give-away their cameras to this niche market and push perhaps 1000 MF cameras out a year.

Phase One, Hasselblad and Mamiya have their devout users who will not touch another system on the account of the specific images they are used to and they are very fussy about established support and service.

Leica's foray into the MF market is something they just had no choice but to commit to, because 35 mm pros ( photojournalists mostly ) stopped using Leica a good while ago and because they felt that their brand would suffer if they didn't.

The S system is like the ghastly green and yellow D&G jacket that makes no sense but had to be made so that D&G can remain D&G.

But hey, all I'm saying is that if I had a few hundred millions, I wouldn't sink it in a new MF business in the current market.

@Barney

Precisely.

Leica didn't enter MF to sell cameras. It was more an act of Leica auto-eroticism and in that sense a private act. They don't care if they sell less than 100 units.

First it's sad, then it's so sad it's funny, then it's so funny it's sad.

But right at the end it's funny.

mmm...No, it's really very sad.

I'm laughing though.

Lip filler mania. Brought to you by Canon.

The Leica magic is visible in every shot. Very annoying indeed.

Best of luck to you.
You'll be fine. And if you crash it's all for the sake of art and adventure. Just replace the damaged parts and keep flying.

Es ist die beste Kamera der Welt !

Go unannounced?

Then you'll have to conseal a vessel to deal with the fluids.
I say go announced and be proud of wetness.

Granpa is joining the party at 5 am.

A one inch sensor deserves to be able to fly beyond 31 minutes.
There's no point teaching your grandpa new Timberlake moves if you cannot remedy his arthritis.

You get ONE new untested camera with ONE relatively failure prone XQD. You put one inside the other and head out for that "shoot or get shot" assignment.

It's like trusting Kinko to take your rottweiler for a walk.

What on earth happened to the cliche wisdom everyone has been splattering at the newbie photographers for the last half century?:

"Invest in lenses."

Now it's suddenly "Invest in Nikon's late-arrival camera and prepare to pay for new not-yet-existing lenses?"

The problem is not the camera which is just another OK camera.
The stupidity is on the price tag.

Teaser definition by Webster :an advertising or promotional device intended to arouse interest or curiosity especially in something to follow.
Fail by definition.

Apple total company value just surpassed 1000,000,000,000 US dollars. That is 1000 billion.

And what do they give us? The new Mac Book Pro, which is a joke compared to all the top Windows laptops.

Profit, profit, profit, tech. Profit, profit, profit, tech.This is how they tick. Very old fashioned. In less than ten years they are ash.

"We are preparing for the next 100 years by leaping into a new dimension"

It's amazing what a few lines can do.

"This new mount is Nikon's response to the challenges of the future."

Finally, a lens mount that addresses climate change and over-population.

Obviously most want to look through a bright viewfinder, and shoot high res photos of fast moving things with the toys they already own while the camera is shaking.

This proves that grown up boys want exactly the same thing as when they were 7.