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by pesto88 4247 days ago
I completely agree,

I had a film Leica and then bought an M9P, they're so vastly different in usage, it's almost hilarious.

Almost everything, except how the camera looks from the front, was lost. The shutter sound is atrociously loud and annoying sounding. Tons of firmware issues, I have missed many shots simply because the camera just hanged up, and needed a battery re-insert. The M9 is noticably bulkier than any of the film Leica's, also it's just as heavy as any fullframe DSLR.

You see Leica coming out with weird cameras such as the T, and you just have to facepalm. What they really need to do to combat the Fuji / Sony cameras coming out is to release a small fixed lens camera with a 35 summicron or summilux equivalent (like a digital Contax T3). I doubt that this will happen since whoever is in charge now has no brand vision.

Going to get a XT1 as soon as possible.

My Flickr if you're curious: http://flickr.com/photos/moarbokeh

With all that being said, this is a nice implementation of a timeline, it might be more epic if the site had a black or dark background, white text, and red accents.

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I love my X-T1 and X100s. I think you'll be incredibly happy with the X-T1, especially with a 56mm ƒ/1.2. I dumped my 5D Mark II for it, and haven't had any regrets. My Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst
You know, there's something about these damn Fujifilm cameras. My Finepix F100fd knocked out perfectly exposed shots, with fantastic color and skin-tones all day.

Even my GF1 can't seem to manage the same thing, though my D70 does pretty good.

The GF1 was good but it was a very early generation m43, any recent one from Panasonic or Olympus gives much better performance overall and will easily outperform your D70 (I moved from GF1 to E-M10 a few months ago).