Bought a Leica today
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:14 pmby Glen
for my daughter
Seems they can still suck a few dollars out of a wanker like me for a big name on a japanese camera.
Smallest, cheapest they make and I feel I am vicariously feeding my desire for a M8 through my daughter
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Re: Bought a Leica today
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:31 pmby Yi-P
Glen wrote: I am vicariously feeding my desire for a M8 through my daughter
Getting a "mate" through your daughter?
Go Glen, go get one
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:39 pmby wendellt
sometimes a leica is just a leica
bastardised sigmund freud quote
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:25 pmby Glen
Yip, a M8 like this
http://www.mainlinephoto.com.au/webcontent37.htm 
with the $7k body price tag, then again I do like some of my daughters M8s
Well put Wendell
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:28 pmby wendellt
handsome camera
but for that price id rath-rrrr buy a 2nd d2x
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:14 pmby Glen
Made in Japan, but they make you feel very German with austere silver packaging with black labels,etc. It is the Panasonic unit with a Leica lens and colour management and image processing. Reading reviews and looking at samples showed quite a bit of difference between them as there should be with the price difference, $850 rrp for a 7mp P&S, still the cheapest Leica I will ever own.
Daughter was smart enough to realise she needed a wide angle lens, this had 28mm so suited.
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:27 pmby Geoff
Nice looking P&S Glen
I'm sure Brooke will be happy.
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:42 pmby Glen
Brooke was happy Geoff, disappointing thing for me is that she didn't know what a Leica was! She actually said "It's not a Canon" as recommended by her workmates, I told her to message all these pro photogs and tell them she has a Leica
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:45 pmby Geoff
Hehehe..."I got a Leica today" perhaps leave out the P&S bit
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:49 pmby sirhc55
I’m surprised that Brooke did not say ”it’s not pink”
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:54 pmby Glen
Funny Chris, you got her preferred colour in one!
She did say she loves the retro look
