Why Leica camera very expensive?

[Joe Maya]

If walk around with Leica camera, will attract all the chiobus?

 

[jkohlc2]

Read HWZ Forum Rules!

 

[magnus]

got retailer engage my service to do product shoot on a ad hoc basis because I'm using leica camera.

 

[Charles_Chi4]

If possible with straps screaming Leica big big, will attract more chiobus

 

[mryang]

If walk around with Leica camera, will attract all the chiobus?

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[magnus]

wear leica cap too to look more pro.

 

[Joe Maya]

got retailer engage my service to do product shoot on a ad hoc basis because I'm using leica camera.

Your Leica camera the price of a Rolex or the cheap tier ones ?

 

[mooseolly]

Reminds me of Huawei phones.

 

[magnus]

Your Leica camera the price of a Rolex or the cheap tier ones ?

my leica cam is on my xiaomi phone. only do some basic outdoor photoshoot for the retailer. their staff all using iphone and Samsung...when compared pics they said mine better

 

[ChenHoNam]

leica or this ?

 

[Spectre007]

leica camera jin power, dinobu can hip until become a chiobu.

 

[RyanJ]

If walk around with Leica camera, will attract all the chiobus?

Walk around with this already got wind.

No need to take any pics with the camera.

U wait for people to take photos of you with the camera.

 

[orpisia]

Dunno

Not photographer

 

[buttbERry]

i dont think so

most doesnt care what camera u have

 

[zoossh]

Most camera bodies nowadays are capable of producing great results. it is the lens that makes the major differences. leica lens are sharp but so are the flagships of other brands.

leica lags behind in autofocus and digital sensor. In streetshot using zone focusing and on slow/static objects, autofocus may not be that important, but for other genres and price, Leica lose out to other brands

since they can’t fight on that, they continue to upsell their luxury and exclusivity, concentrating on the niche market with the aesthetic, and some love it’s more saturated handling of red and greens different from its japanese counterparts

But even so they are losing markets to fujifilm

to survive, companies like leica and hasselblad cannot just rely on the small market of super expensive cameras. Which is why you see they lend their labels to xiaomi and Huawei to boost the image

 

[nachtsid.er]

Rather spend on A9ii

 

[BlackWing1977]

Most camera bodies nowadays are capable of producing great results. it is the lens that makes the major differences. leica lens are sharp but so are the flagships of other brands.

leica lags behind in autofocus and digital sensor. In streetshot using zone focusing and on slow/static objects, autofocus may not be that important, but for other genres and price, Leica lose out to other brands

since they can’t fight on that, they continue to upsell their luxury and exclusivity, concentrating on the niche market with the aesthetic, and some love it’s more saturated handling of red and greens different from its japanese counterparts

But even so they are losing markets to fujifilm

to survive, companies like leica and hasselblad cannot just rely on the small market of super expensive cameras. Which is why you see they lend their labels to xiaomi and Huawei to boost the image

A lot of the so called good photos taken by phones nowadays actually depends on their software... how they uses the fast CPU/GPU on it to process it... etc... this is where all the traditional camera brand are falling behind, their camera simply doesn't have the hardware and software to handle this processing, they are still depending on their lens, sensor and the person operating it to take good pictures.

 

[sciprof]

I use toy camera like holga can produce artistic results. It's the photographer skill not how expensive is the camera.

 

[BlackWing1977]

I use toy camera like holga can produce artistic results. It's the photographer skill not how expensive is the camera.

The best camera is always the one you carry with you... a lot of good photos have more to do with lighting and positioning... once you get this down, as long as your camera hardware dun suck badly... should be able to get a good picture.

 

[BlueBull]

Status Symbol. For the rich and trendy.

Like drive Toyota and Honda vs drive BMW and Audi, all get you from point A to point B but you arrive in BMW and Audi more people look at you and think you have made it.