Comments on: Leica X Vario: Ten-year-old underdog continues to confound its critics https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/ Leica cameras, photography and discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79481 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:18 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79481 In reply to Jörg-Peter.

Thanks Jörg-Peter for your kind comment. As you know I love old digital cameras even they can be no longer serviced. They are a pleasure to use on a daily basis with much simpler menus than their newer offsprings.
Have a merry Christmas
Jean

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By: Jörg-Peter https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79411 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:16:56 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79411 Dear Jean, sorry, I‘m late to the party, but I wanted to thank you for this great article. Your love for this cameras speaks out of every image and every line. Well done – and an encouragement that an „old“ (digital) camera is certainly not automatically a bad camera. That‘s what the industry wants us to believe. There is no doubt that cameras do improve technologically but there is no doubt either that they don’t deteriorate only because newer cameras are available. Jörg-Peter

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By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79195 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:15:04 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79195 In reply to Jon Cheffings.

Thanks John for your kind comment. As you said what a pity Leica dropped out of the aps-c line. As for the XV I love its organic rendering, maybe a tad sharper than my dead X2

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By: Brian Nicol https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79194 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:06:27 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79194 ]]> In reply to Jean Perenet.

Thanks to your article, I will probably have to wait four years. 😀

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By: Jon Cheffings https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79193 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:23:56 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79193 Thanks Jean for a charming article. It was a very enjoyable read.

I have never used an X Vario, but based on using a CL + TL18-56 combination, I can imagine the appeal.

As has been said before here, it’s frustrating that Leica seemed unable to grasp the appeal of the X line , or the TL line, or the CL lost opportunities…

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By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79191 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:58:19 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79191 In reply to James Langmesser.

Thanks James for your comment. It is a truly amazing camera.

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By: James Langmesser https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79187 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:11:04 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79187 My wife and I both have and use the Vario X. We were in Innsbruck today. My wife has been using only the Vario X since I bought it new at the Washington DC Leica store. She used it once and told me, “get your own.” I did. She has be all black one and I the silver one. The colors the Vario X produced today in Innsbruck are amazing. We both endorse all the comments above about how great this camera is.

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By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79184 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:39:41 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79184 In reply to David Seargeant.

Thanks Dave for the kind comment. It’s a pity Leica abandoned the X series. They seem to be doing pretty well with their most recent cameras. However one can console oneself as we can still find decent X cameras on the used market. The camera have definitely an image signature of their own which is hard to beat for me.

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By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79183 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:34:54 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79183 In reply to Chris Rodgers.

Thanks Chris for your comment. This aprt of Normandy is a nice place to live despite the unsetteled weather.

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By: Jean Perenet https://www.macfilos.com/2024/12/13/leica-x-vario-ten-year-old-underdog-continues-to-confound-its-critics/#comment-79182 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:32:17 +0000 https://www.macfilos.com/?p=79760#comment-79182 In reply to John Shingleton.

Thanks John for the kind comment. I’m careful to always have a battery fully charged in the camera to avoid the internal battery problem. The tilting EVF is an absolute bonus. I don’t know what my next camera will be but it’ll certainly have a tilting EVF.

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