Any Leica's in here..?

[bulbmogul]

As others have said, the price is an issue. And for pro use they have been sidelined for a long time. Before TV & Movies I worked in commercial photography for a while - ads, fashion, product photos, material for websites, etc. Never once saw or heard of a Leica being used on a pro job. Mostly Canon, some Nikon & Sony, and then Phase One on big-budget or really technically demanding jobs. Fuji medium format (well, semi-medium format) was just beginning to creep in when I left stills. While in school I was doing journalism work and shooting for local magazines, never saw Leica there either. Mostly Canon, some Nikon.
Leica doesn't really do zooms and shooting macro or tilt shift on a rangefinder is impossible. So that puts them out of the running in a pro's bag. Unit stills photographers on movies and TV usually use some form of mirrorless, so you could do that on Leica, but I have yet to see it.

Where I did see them A LOT was from fine arts students and camera club guys in the school darkroom. I stuck to Nikon since I could share one big set of lenses on my analog and digi bodies.

They're nice, well-built, and not for me.

Leica like Rolex is all about name recognition. Rimowa is to luggage as leica is to cameras...

 

[bulbmogul]

Leica and Rimowa go hand in hand while traveling..

 

[kerneldrop]

Leica and Rimowa go hand in hand while traveling..

Dang look at that flexing

 

[WarriorOfLight]

If Rollei is shown ...

Nikon too

...and Nikon is also shown, than I show my Pentax

And it is good to see flashlights and a Pentax DSLR fits perfectly together...

It makes at least for me more sense having a Pentax DSLR and a few lenses instead of a single Leica, but Leica is cool stuff!

 

[bulbmogul]

FLEX MASTER

 

[alpg88]

I do not have Leica cam, but my panasonic lumix has leica lens, it is old camera, over 15 years old, only 8 mega pixels, and would not take a card larger than 2 gb, but the pictures it makes are very good, especially macro,
I also still have old soviet kiev 4 camera, from 60s or so, which is a soviet clone of either leica or zeiss, after ww2 soviets brought entire factories from germany, and made awesome optical equipment, for few decades, until the tools and equipment got worn out, everything they made after was not nearly as good, I also have soviet zenit camera, which was made 30 years after kiev4, and was considered premium camera, does not compare to decades older german clone.