photo credit Ken Rockwell 

If you have endless money to spend on digital cameras buy a new Leica M. You will get one of the most excellently crafted cameras with one of the best image qualities available, better than Canon or Nikon. Its images are superior because it is a range finder system with no mirror construction in the optical path, only the top-notch Leica lenses right in front of the images sensor. The images you get from a range finder are much sharper than from DSLRs because lenses for latter are optical compromises to fit the larger gap between lens and recording medium. If you can live with the Leica's shortcomings, especially what you see through the range finder is always a little different to what you get in your final image (you can use an electronic viewfinder now, however it looks silly), and you don't have autofocus. Before 1987 people had no autofocus either and have produced millions of masterpieces with their manual focus cameras (Henri Cartier-Bresson used a Leica, too). Anyway, have a look at the Leica M, it also looks spectacular, worlds better than the clunky black DSLRs. It's made in Germany by the way, that's why it doesn't cost 2.000 but 7.000 € ...

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