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I guess that after the Hasselblad Lunar we will soon get a second non-sense camera for rich people! What for a short moment appeared to may become the first Sony RX1 challenger turned out to be…a complete let down 🙂
The new highly teased (and leaked) Leica X Vario Type 107 camera will be announced on Tuesday and is a fixed lens APS-C camera with slow 28-70mm f/3.5-6.4. And guess what the price will be….2450 Euro! Almost the same price of the Sony RX1 Full Frame with superb 35mm f/2.0 Zeiss prime lens ([shoplink 18876 ebay]2566 Euro at Photodirect[/shoplink]).
P.S.: Don’t get me wrong, I would be glad to see some RX1 competition. Otherwise Sony will go lazy with price drops and new RX improvements!
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Disappointing slow zoom… Not worth a Leica red dot!
This camera is a total disaster. Not even the Leica fanboys have anything good to say about it.
The only way to make sense of the absurdly slow lens, is that Leica makes it 18-200mm zoom.
One should stress the ‘absurdly’-part. I can’t remember to ever have seen a practical (read non-museum) lens that got a max. aperture value of 6.3 at ~50mm (70 equiv.).
“WAIT FOR THE NEW LEICA, IT WILL KICK SERIOUS ASS”
Hard to believe some people were saying this on the internets these days.
Sony Rx2 + Olympus 5 axis ISS
+++++
Leica is losing its idea. Launching camera, equipped with slow 28-70mm f/3.5-6.4 kit lens is someting I didn’t expect from such a nice lens manufacturer like Leica. Even Pana/Lumix is excelling here…
the more weird thing is that Panasonic uses Leica glass.
Awesome picture. Broken strap holder looks really good.
nice catch 🙂
actually the lens is a 18-46mm one (28-70 equivalent), so the mock-up picture isn’t a very good one 😉
Maybe I would buy it with a FF-sensor. With APS-C no way! Better keep my RX1 🙂
Leica needs to do a lot of homework to catch up with rx1. When they do, we will all own rx3 for $1500.
I wish you could stop posting about nonsense companies like Leica and Hasselblad. Just because the names are famous, and they once did good stuff, doesn’t mean they deserve anybody’s attention today.
And of course glass is excluded from my judgment that Leica is a nonsense company.
I can’t believe anyone ever thought that Leica would put a properly priced competitor to the RX1 on the market. When has that ever been their M.O? The RX1 is the king of street camera lore at the moment. And, despite what the Fuji freaks would have you believe, it’s going to stay that way for a while.
I think the new FF RX willhave a zoom either 24-70mm probably f4 or 16-35mm f3.5-??.
Really? No one, not even Leica, would put a 28-70 mm lens in front of an APS sensor. That is a full frame focal length. So it is either a full frame camera or you got the lens wrong. Probably it is 18-50 mm.
dpreview said that too. It’ll be revealed today anyhow