{"id":13582,"date":"2015-02-26T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2015-02-26T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:50:17","slug":"leica-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13582","title":{"rendered":"Leica Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leica-Mini-9608\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Leica Mini cost about $300 when it was new while the Minolta Freedom Escort cost about $85 I’ve written previously about how these are for all intents and purposes the same camera.\u00a0 Fraternal twins? Leica and Minolta<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite this knowledge the gravitational pull of the Leica\u00a0still seems to draw me in as it obviously has others.\u00a0 It’s true Leica\u00a0have created some incredible photographic equipment and I guess this halo allowed them to charge more for the same thing such as the Leica\u00a0Digilux\u00a04.3 which\u00a0was essentially a Fujifilm\u00a04700 or the Leica\u00a0Digilux\u00a03 which was the same as a Panasonic Lumix\u00a0DMC-L1\u00a0and there were and are more examples.\u00a0 There is always just enough modification to at least create the plausibility\u00a0of justification whether it’s the\u00a0lens or firmware.\u00a0 In the case of the Leica\u00a0Mini its the lens that is different but from what I can see there is little or no gain over the Minolta.\u00a0 See what I just did there?\u00a0 Even I hedged my bet that there could be a difference, what am I afraid of, the not so secret society the Leicati?\u00a0\u00a0 If having a Leica is something that matters to you then this is a good one to have it’s cheap and decent and has a red dot but if you can’t find one you could always just put a red dot on the Minolta.<\/p>\n

\"RedDot\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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