Leica T

[Andy90]

Leica have announced a new camera to celebrate 100 years of Camera production - the Leica T.

Few posts can be found at

http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/04/leica-announces-new-t-camera-system/

DPreview has a number of articles, including

Construction shots

Leica Official Announcement

First impressions

It looks like an interesting design, being milled from a solid block of aluminium no doubt gives it a solid feel. Touchscreen on the rear looks nice too.

Not sure about the lack of a rubberised grip on the front - wouldn't want to fumble and drop it considering the body is £1350 with the lenses around £1300 each.

Does it bring anything new to the table? I don't think so, but as a design exercise its a nice clean looking camera (that is until you stick the viewfinder on the top!!)

 

[Andy90]

Quite agree about the lenses - quite a large amount of cash for a slow lens.

would I splash out £2600 for it? No, at that sort of cash I think I'd probably go with the Sony R1XR - full frame 24mp with a 35mm f/2.0 lens. There are quite a few 4/3rd cameras out there that would do the job nicely too and less than half the price, such as the Fuji X-T1 or the Olympus OM-D.

 

[Andy90]

Ah the Hassleblad Lunar - a rebadged and blinged out Sony NEX-7 for the terminally stupid millionaire

How the mighty Hassleblad has fallen