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La V,
You say:
"What A_J Maher calls "unnecessary pain" applies only to those lavish governments that are used to steal the savings of their citizens by simply inflating sovereign debts away at the cost of prudent economic players . . . by turning their whole societies into Casinos at Wall-Street croupiers' mercy."
Estonia is in a debt deflationary spiral with horrific levels of unemployment. The only thing going up in this devastated economy is the real and nominal value of their debt! It requires a truly robotic level of motivated stupidity to state that a country in this situation has a higher duty to her reckless and feckless foreign creditors than to her own destitute population. Or that inflation is a real threat to an economy which has lost 18% of output and is in the grips of a real spiral of deflation rather than entirely imaginary risk of inflation.
Your crackpot morality is merely a veneer for a usurious and exploitative policy that steals from the Estonian unemployed in order to defend the interests of irresponsible bondholders/bankers and defend the uber mark from the unspeakable threat of inflation.
If Estonia should not export inflation to Germany then surely it is also true that Germany should not export deflation to Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Spain et al? Why is that side of the equation never considered when these obnoxious and self righteous German euro sermons are issued?
Stripped of all this pseudo moralistic bluster an agenda of bottomless greed is revealed – bondholders (notably German banks) are entitled (entitled!!) to a risk free return in hard currency. Tens of millions of Europe's unemployed can carry the full cost of this rolling crisis unaided but the risk free return of underemployed capital must still be defended at all cost.
This is an agenda so mindlessly destructive of the broader economic welfare that even a sermonising imbecile like you should pause and consider whether its likely political dividend will not damage far more than the old old shibboleth that there is such a thing as a guaranteed return on savings....
Estonians may not be 100% right, but they are tough - Nordic tough, you might say - tough enough to make the difficult decisions and consistently follow through on them. Not many other people can say that.
All known currency unions have "failed" in the past. All. And if you think the rest of Europe or the German taxpayer is going to put up with this huge fecious lie, then the wool has been pulled over your eyes as well...
The Germans have a saying about yelling into a forrest.
This will get ugly in March thru May as:
a) Spain "must" rollover 400 bn in debt (mostly to German banks)
b)) German elections prove they are done with Angela Jerkel
The German of yesturday will no longer pay for Europe nor will it stand for a weaker currency. German banks are holding "trillions" in worthless liabilities. They will default...
Solution - Default, restructure and endure the cost...
I'm not talking here about Schadefreude's well known pathological anti-German propaganda, "that even the German state would be unable to take on this debt, without itself becoming insolvent" (fact is, German banks own a manageable 515.9 billion Euros in total to the so called "PIIGS"); if this would mean 'Armageddon' for the German state, what 'super-nova' then are the upcoming obligations of US and British taxpayers for their crisis-created 'bad banks' and for their own banks' bad loans to foreign- and their own economies?? - Lol!
But instead we're talking here about A_J Maher's (Schadefreude's colleague in mind) shedding of crocodile's tears over the Estonians' supposed "unnecessary pain of an inappropriate exchange rate and an inappropriate interest rate".
What A_J Maher calls "unnecessary pain" applies only to those lavish governments that are used to steal the savings of their citizens by simply inflating sovereign debts away at the cost of prudent economic players . . . by turning their whole societies into Casinos at Wall-Street croupiers' mercy.
But for all others – as for the Estonians – Maher's "pain-scenario" is the normal fiscal state for a prudent, responsible society which is not distorted by sick and highly infectious Keynesian bubble-burst cycles.
Estonian financial behavior, shaped largely by the Hanseatic League's economic traditions, doesn't need an Anglo-Saxon debt-depending economy to become wealthy one day; slower maybe . . . but continuously and sustainably instead.
That most "Northern" societies (of which Estonia is one) are able to apply fiscal soundness without pain to their people is proven manifold and doesn't need to be further discussed here.
Also – according to this article - Estonia's president Toomas Ilves suggested another well proven factor that is forming the remarkable "northern fiscal mentality": Northern peoples are thrifty by necessity; they must save food in the summer to survive the winter.
As I've said earlier, the only euro-drawback for the Estonian people is that they are committed now to bankroll the insane lavishness of highly indebted - but comparably rich - Irish multiple-home-owners and the extravaganzas of 'young' Greek pensioners.
You say:
"Before Estonia joined EU in 2004, there was held a referendum, wether to join the EU or not. With joining the EU, Estonia also obliged to join eurozone and there was alot of discussion about it before joining EU in 2004. I don't see any dictatorship here."
Well you can only see what you choose to see of course. Overruling the popular Estonian opposition to joining the euro was certainly not a democratic act.
The treaties cannot compel any country to join the euro – Poland, Czech and Sweden will certainly not join.
The unnecessary pain of an inappropriate exchange rate and an inappropriate interest rate will be suffered by the Estonian public. If they must do all the paying for policy decisions then it is they should have the final say.
That's democracy....
The currency of a relatively small economy seldom manages to be really 'independent' ... or otherwise it never manages to become more than a limited, strictly local means for commodity exchange – short of being just a self-issued barter medium with less international trade value than "shell money".
This general "currency rule" is also true for the history of Estonia's legal tender. In 1924, the Estonian kroon was pegged to the Swedish krona; and both being pegged to "gold" (at 2480 kroon for 1 kilogram of pure gold in 1924). During the Great Depression in 1933, as most others, the Estonian kroon went off the gold standard. It then obtained a currency peg with the British Pound. This binding lasted until Russia's invasion of Estonia in 1940.
Realizing its "weather vane situation", the Estonian kroon was straightaway pegged to the Deutsche Mark after its reintroduction in 1992. After the Euro came, Estonia joined the ERM II-system and consequently pegged the EEK to the EURO (revalued by less than 0.001%). Thus, it wouldn't make practically any difference for the Estonians whether being "pegged" to the Euro or using the Euro directly. As a full euromember the real difference for these sober minded Estonians evolves from the compulsory euro-commitment to bail out other euro-countries; fiscally independent countries they have absolutely no bearing on.
This will lead to the absurd situation that the fiscally prudent (but relatively poor) Estonians, with a GDP of just $14,267 per capita in 2009 (acc. to IMF), will have to pay the debts for such extremely lavish societies as Ireland's, with a solely debt-fuelled economy of $51,356 per capita. Or the poor Estonians will have to pay for the extravaganzas of the early retirees in Greece who still enjoy – with $29,635 GDP per capita in 2009 - a living standard more than double that of the average Estonian. This will be the real big bullet to bite in the years to come.
Why does Estonia take voluntarily part in this collective insanity?
The answer can only be that the Estonians willfully "peg" their financial fate "lemming-like" to that of the Germans. That's Charlemagne's last sentence makes sense the most: "Estonia will hope to inherit a share in a successor currency, perhaps a "northern euro". That makes the gamble worth taking."
No matter if Estonia joins, the Euro still needs German banks to restructure. As I see it, the crucial assumptions in your scenario are: (i) that debt restructuring or partial default by some or all of the peripheral countries (or exit and devaluation) would make the German banking system insolvent, and (ii) that the even the German state would be unable to take on this debt, without itself becoming insolvent. It isn't entirely clear that (i) is correct, and it is very far from clear that (ii) is so.
The reason investors are so concerned about the periphery is because of the spectre of prolonged deflationary slumps (or at best anaemic growth), with high real interest rates and high unemployment. This would put continuous pressure on public finances, and fiscal tightening to reduce deficits, without offsetting monetary policy loosening (as promised by the BoE in the UK, for example, but which the ECB cannot provide when the EA core is growing and overall EA inflation is near the target), would further reduce growth. Since Germany has not experienced a property bubble, nor excessive price/wage growth (indeed, price and wage growth have both been below the EA averages), this risk does not apply to Germany. There is absolutely no need for deflation, and hence no spectre of a deflationary slump or the resulting unmanageable fiscal deficits.
Without the fiscal pressure caused by a prolonged deflationary slump, the German state could probably afford to bail out all of the German banking system's debts to the periphery (which of course is far more extreme than any realistic scenario). There would be a one-off increase in general government debt, but not of sufficient magnitude to cause any concern about the German state's ability to pay the interest. Indeed, even the tiny Irish state might well be able to handle the debts of the Irish banking system if it were not facing the fiscal straitjacket of a deflationary depression, combined with the monetary straitjacket of the euro.
The fundamental rub is that the German design for the EUR is to be a store of value over time. Trouble is, the present-day EUR actually outperforms yesteryears' DEM in this regard: Had this crisis unfolded 20 years ago, claims in IEP on Germany AG's balance sheet would simply have devalued 20%. Yet here the German government is today, somehow trying to avoid a debt restructuring of Irish claims so as to spare Germany AG the write-downs. This is unsustainable. The yardstick for the success of the single currency should be financial efficiency - not whether it is an adept tool at bailing out troubled parties. The survival of the EUR should hence be detached from the current mess - a mess which the Germans yet need to make a decision on how they would prefer to see it resolved: punish individual creditors for their bad lending decisions OR accept inflation and effectively socialize those bad lending decisions. Ironically, both amount to nearly the same thing anyway - not that a German would ever see it this way: if savings are a national past-time, then chances are that every saver would have made at least one duff lending decision and thus all savings take a haircut from defaults. What I am very critical of is how the present generation currently works to preserve their claims at the expense of the next. Long-term, Germany needs to make a still more important decision. Does she want to:
(a) amass huge trade surpluses with her EU trading partners which will periodically bring on social tensions and/or defaults in those countries; or
(b) for Europe to find a framework that will encourage European companies to generate income within Europe proportionately nearer to where the demand for their products is (so as to avoid large trade imbalances within the EU).
Again, this will be a decision that germany MUST make in the next FIVE months because the CDU and Angela Jerkel are GONE. That is the view of the German public, not me. If they pass this decision to the next govt, which wouldnt suprise me because Germany is well known for not taking responsibility, then you can guarantee Spain defaulting at this same time when EUR 400 bn is due. Especially at German Banks!!!!
So, Germany, German citizens or German banks must make these unpopular decisions soon. Any more delaying, like Jekel has been doing (Typisch Deustche) then the crisis becames a deflationary depression. Schade...
Mr.ChrisFrance wrote:
"In a rescent poll done in Estonia 56% of Estonians said they were against membership of the euro. Onle 36% said they were in favour. But the government nevertheless forced their own citizens into this without giving them the right of a reffferendum on such an important issue and sneaked it in through the back door.
Is this what you call democracy? Or is this simply non democratic dictatorship?"
Before Estonia joined EU in 2004, there was held a referendum, wether to join the EU or not. With joining the EU, Estonia also obliged to join eurozone and there was alot of discussion about it before joining EU in 2004.
I don't see any dictatorship here.
Kevin Sutton
right on !
Estonia has a very long history of survival in spite of insurmountable odds and the frequent necessity of making appalling choices without flinching. Its ability to do so may very well result, as President Toomes put it, from Estonia's "peasant mentality." (There is little other Estonian mentality -- all of Estonia's native aristocracy were killed off by various invaders centuries ago, and its middle ranks usually monopolized by foreigners.) In fact, when it comes to making really hard choices, knowing that no choice will yield a "happy ending," we may have more to learn from Estonia than Estonia has to learn from the rest of us. Sure -- Talinn may be wrong; but, in any real mess, Estonia's choices ought to be taken very seriously.
An economy who's GDP will take will take years of sterling growth to recover, with a huge unemployment rate and high inflation. No; that does not speak well of those economic policies. The fact that your average Estonian supposedly takes all that with uncommon cheer doesn't make austerity and avoiding monetary policy a good idea. Maybe not having to be responsible for your banking sector's mistakes, (because its really the banking sector of someone else) is an advantage but we all knew that.
In a rescent poll done in Estonia 56% of Estonians said they were against membership of the euro. Onle 36% said they were in favour. But the government nevertheless forced their own citizens into this without giving them the right of a reffferendum on such an important issue and sneaked it in through the back door.
Is this what you call democracy? Or is this simply non democratic dictatorship?
P.S. The country has just gone into it and already they have to provide 130 million euro of illegal bail out money to Ireland - this is quiet alot for them bearing in mind their whole budget is 6 billion. I wonder how much more they will have to pay to rescue socialist western europe.
Santa Claus was benevolent and he granted a coveting euro currency to Estonia.. Compared to some members of euro zone, Estonia really deserves it. As long as the countries: Greece,Ireland and Spain brought about wavering of Europian currency generating the crisis in the euro zone with their budget deficits,Estonia's economy was rated high for its income by the World Bank,and due to its rapid economic recovery it has been described as the Baltic Tiger. Bold austerity measures restored the country from the slump. It made extensive cuts in public sector spending,fought tax evasion, and so it will restore investor confidence. German Chancellor Mrs Angela Merkel should not worry about another bail-out
Sackbauer: You do realize Latvia and Estonia are different countries, right?
Poor Charlemagne, still promoting eurosepticism (in an articulate and balanced way, as fit for the Economist)...
Move on, in the end, even Britain will have to join.
To Joe Solaris,
I fully support your views but I'm afraid you're wasting your breath or should I say fingertips?
This Charlemagne is more of a pamphleteer than a journalist: he has the knowledge of an Oxonian with a News of the World mindset. With his cheerleader and chorus boys and girls he is definitely irredeemable; dropping sounding names right and left with well publicized breakfasts. He keeps looking for trouble and when he doesn't find it, as in the last NATO summit, he complains that's bad for journalists; it doesn't even cross his mind that a good journalist makes a good article whether from conflict or agreement; if he is very good, good news make better material for analysis than potential dangers.
To an outsider who knows the ropes of serious magazines, he does leave the impression the Economist is riven between two schools : the Pre John Micklethwait's editorship and the post one. The latter seems to be interested only in showing how many more posters they get than their colleagues, eventually increasing the magazine readership and leave a distinct suspicion of serving outside interests rather the probable truth, the aim of any serious analyst. He reminds me of "europeview" who seems to be hiding behind a curtain after the outcry raised by posters.
Elsewhere in this magazine,
Daily Charts published an excellent set of 9 tables that condenses the world financial situation at this moment of the crisis started in 2007 (it isn't finished yet by a long chalk). One of the tables fully confirms for the countries it covers a table published on June 9th 2010 8:42 GMT at
To save you the hassle of visiting it, it contained a table setting the ranking of countries in the news of the debt crisis (Borda's ranking method makes it imperative that differences in points are multiples of 0.25 for four variables; 0.33 for three and the 4th variable for the last four countries could not be obtained)
7....France and Finland....7.75
11....Switzerland ....9.00
14....Ireland ....14.00
Caveats and full explanations on how the table was built (obeying the strictest maths criteria in use now) were included in the original comment if you care to read it.
I know most analysts don't care a hoot, or know not enough to care, about maths criteria.
They are what counts in money matters.
Money abhors emotions, pamphleteerism and half baked notions.
That's why many supporters of Britain's interests (I'm one) have not yet figured out that the demise of the Euro or even its split between a North Euro and and Southern Euro would harm mostly the English and American economies.
If that surprises anyone just think of a secondary reason: foreign exchange trade is 30% handled in Britain, 18% in America. Its profits and earnings make up a very sizeable share of England's (mostly London's economy). Compare to France and Germany (with less than 7% apiece) and you find the huge difference in impact. Now, it is well known that profits from foreign exchange trade are proportional to volume of trade; costs to number of transactions. If the Euro splits in two, the volume of transaction will not change but the number of transactions will increase by the square of two which I hope everybody knows is four. So the British economy will receive the same profits but its costs will be fourfold higher; same for France or Germany. The difference being that in the latter two countries foreign trade costs will be 5 times less important in their economy than in Britain.
Somehow, I doubt the maths skills for those intent in bringing down the Euro will be enough to understand this simple exercise.
May you all, Charlemagne and his cheer chorus naturally very much included, have a very Happy New Year.
Unlike Italy, Estonia is a democracy. It does not have an idiot like Berlusconi as head of state, the media is free and the courts are independent.
Thanks for the umlauts, Charlemagne!
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OK. Obviously you are living on the same planet like The Economist staff. I live on planet Earth. Hopefully we will meet each other once in a while. Some missions are on the way!
In the meantime I recommmend to read Michael Hudson in the Guardian on Latvia. He also debunks a recent story of The Economist. Every year the same problem: shall I cancel my Economist subscription?
A neoliberal garbage heap recycled into some sheets of paper. On the other hand good for my weekly blood pressure.
Yes I think a trip to Tallinn is appropriate to celebrate the resilient and disciplined Estonians arrival in Euroland. Welcome !
I wish the EU as well as the IMF would make a spin on this story and thus show everyone, especially the Southern states that fiscal discipline and thinking for the long term are the recipe for a stable economy.
To Sackbauer:
Clearly you must know yourself how grossly overestimated these figures are? The economy contracted well under 25% and most of it was from the bursting real estate bubble anyway (which meant growth rates from 7 to 10% for the previous three years). Unemployment figures are well under 20% and have been dropping for almost the entire year. Job vacancies are plentiful, but people with qualifications are hard to come by. Call it the backlash of the careless Soviet employment system, not something most European countries need to worry about.
Emigration has never been a big issue for Estonia, this is just a misconception that people get from the big population exodus problems in Lithuania and Latvia. One should not generalise so loosely based on geographical proximity alone.
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Leica T – Beta Test Report
By Michael Reichmann
The World's Sexiest Camera
April 24, 2014
I have been a beta tester for Leica for some time, and this report
is based on a pre-production camera, and early firmware.
The camera's firmware is in constant revision at this time and therefore
no firm conclusions should be drawn about the camera's performance.
When the Leica T is shipping with final firmware I will update this report
to a full review, with comments on all aspects of performance.
Look And Feel
The word sexy is one that I have never used before in relation to a camera. Not no how. Not ever. That's just not the way that I speak or write. But when I recently attended a meeting in New York with senior Leica management, and the new Leica T was put in my hand for the first time, my reaction was emotional rather that pragmatic. "Wow, this is one sexy camera," are the words that I remember saying, and then I sat for some 10 minutes fondling the camera. Yes, fondling, also a word that I have never used before in a camera review.
So – What's going on Reichmann – losing your grip? Well, maybe a little. But the Leica T is that sort of camera.
The technical specs are straightforward, and I'll get to them in a moment, but I want to continue describing the almost visceral experience of handling the Leica T.
The body is smooth, yet not too slippery. The body has a very large front grip area that makes holding the camera feel secure. There are just four external controls – a shutter release with On/Off switch, a movie button, and two deeply recessed thumb wheels. There is a pop-up flash which is activated by turning the On/Off switch to a further position. It then extends quite high off the top of the camera. On the base there is, of course, a tripod screw mount, and a battery compartment. The bottom of the battery is in fact the cover, and this presents a very smooth and practical alternative to the too-often all-too-cheap and flimsy doors that many cameras display. That's it. Nothing else other than an SD card door and slot on the right hand side under ones palm.
Oh yes, there's the very large 3.7" TFT LCD with 1.3 million pixels that seemingly covers the entire back of the camera. Indeed the rear of the Leica T looks and feels very much like an iPhone, because the back is one continuous piece of glass that then merges invisibly with the rest of the chassis. Frankly, it makes every other camera on the market today look clunky and old fashioned.
You'll also notice a unique neoprene rubber lens strap with a unique ringless mounting method that has to be seen to be appreciated.
It should be mentioned that the Leica T's industrial design was by Audi Design.
After I removed the Leica T from my sweaty palms one of the executives handed me a (heavy) block of solid aluminum, and I was told that this is what the bodies are made from. They are carved from such a solid block by a CNC machine and then polished with some 4,000 manual strokes at the Leica factory in Portugal. The perfectly finished bodies are then anodised in either silver or black and provided with a silky-smooth matte finish. The bodies are then shipped to Germany where they are assembled together with their electronic components, and QC tested. My opinion is that the black model looks sharpest, but the review sample I received was silver and it looks very classy.
In Hand
The first thing that you notice, besides the truly world-class industrial design and lovely tactile feel of the body, is that there are almost no external controls. But, turn the camera on and the large 3.7" rear LCD quickly answers the question of where the controls are. This is primarily a touch-screen controlled camera. I'll return to this topic shortly, but I'll mention that if you've ever seen a Leica's menu screen you'll understand that there are few companies that do it better. The menus are simply laid out, obvious in their function, and operate in much the same manner as an iPhone or Android phone. Touch, tap, pinch, swipe. At the time of first shipment there will also be an iOS application called the Leica T App. With it you'll be able to download, share and otherwise control the camera. Android users will be able download images via wireless LAN to the Browser Gallery of an Android device.
The Leica T does not have a built-in EVF. Instead there is an optional accessory EVF called a Visoflex. This is a new proprietary Leica design (not OEM'd from Olympus as was the case with the M 240's EVF) and it has a built-in GPS which transmits data to the camera via the device's accessory shoe connection. By the way, Leica long-timers will smile at the recycling of the name Visoflex, because decades ago this was the name given a reflex viewing device for M cameras. A cute tip-of-the-hat by Leica to a venerable name.
Leica T with 18-56 Vario Elmar @ 56mm and f/7.1
100% on-screen crop
The Basics
I'm sure that you've been all over the web by now reading up on the specs, but here are the basics...
– 16.3 Million pixel size APS-C (23.6 x 15.7 mm) CMOS sensor. Aspect ratio 3:2
– JPG and raw, with DNG raw format. A free copy of Adobe Lightroom is supplied with the camera as a download
– SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards and 16GB of internal memory
– ISO speeds from 100 to 12,500
– video at 1920 x 1080, 30P and 1280 x 720 30P fps
– exposure compensation at ±3 EV in 1/3 EV increments
– frame rate at 5FPS with a 12 frame buffer
– rear 3.7" TFT LCD , 1.3 million pixels
This is a well specified compact system camera by any standard. I could complain about the lack of an articulated LCD, but then this would spoil the beautiful lines of the camera. My guess is that many will be buying this camera because of its styling as much as anything else, so I can't fault Leica for this design decision. But, I miss having one on any camera.
What I can immediately fault them on, even without testing the camera, is the system's lack of optical stabilization. There's none in the camera or the lenses. In today's market some may see this as a serious omission. (There is a Stabilization setting in the menus, but it seems to me to not be optical or sensor based, but electronic in nature, and therefore likely not to be terribly effective. At least it doesn't seem so to me.)
At The Beach. Toronto, April, 2014
Leica T with Vario Elmar T @ ISO 100
Pricing and Availability
The Leica T Type 701 camera body is priced in the U.S. at $1,850 in either black or silver finish. The SUMMICRON-T 23/f2 ASPH is $1,950 and the VARIO-ELMAR-T 18-56/f3.5-5.6 ASPH will be $1,750. The optional Visoflex EVF is $595 and the M lens adaptor will be $395.
The camera, lenses and accessories are scheduled to be in stores worldwide by May 26.
I find the pricing of the camera to be quite aggressive on Leica's part. The lenses seem steep, but if they perform as they initially appear to, then I don't think many will complain. No Leica lens is ever bargain priced.
To save you doing the math, a body, both new lenses, and the EVF together will cost a cool $5,145. But if you just go for the body and zoom you'll be looking at $3,600. Still pricey, but compared to the fixed lens Leica X-Vario when it came out less than a year ago at $2,850, not so bad, especially when you consider that the Leica T has interchangeable lenses, and the "24-70mm" equivalent zoom has increased in speed a half stop from the X-Vario's deal-killing f/6.4 minimum aperture to a seemingly more acceptable f/5.6 at the long end.
In short, the X-Vario's lens (speed notwithstanding) was a remarkable optic. If the interchangeable version for the T is at least as good it will be a killer lens.
The Lenses
The Leica T mount is the first new interchangeable Leica lens mount since the Leica S mount of 2009. Prior to that there was the R mount of 1964, and the M mount of 1954. These are also Leica's first interchangeable autofocus lenses other than those for the medium format Leica S.
According to Leica these lenses are made to their design and specification in Japan, and – FYI – they are not built by Panasonic. When asked directly, I was told that Leica uses an OEM manufacturing company which also makes high-end lenses for a number of other top companies. Is it Cosina? They make Zeiss lenses, no? No, not Cosina. But, regardless of who actually builds them, these are Leica lenses in every respect; fit, finish, and of course, image quality. If these lenses were built at the new Leica plant in Germany my guess is that they would cost 2X what they do now.
The point is that in this world of globalized production, where things are made is much less important than it used to be. Your elegant iPhone is made in China. The fantastic V8 engine in my car is made in Mexico, the chassis was designed in Germany, and the body assembled in the US. Who cares anymore? The important thing is quality of materials, quality of build, and quality of design. Put these factors together properly and it makes little-to-no difference where the robots that make most things are located (and by the way, where were the robots made?)
It's a brave new world, like it or not, and fretting over Made in Germany over Made Somewhere on Planet Earth, means little. And don't forget – some of the best Leica lenses ever were designed and manufactured in Midland, Ontario, Canada. They were highly coveted then and still are by collectors; the same ones who fuss over Made in Germany on a camera's bottom plate. Go figure. Oh yes, the new Leica T body does say Made in Germany.
While on the subject of lenses, there are two additional lenses coming in early 2015. The Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-T 11-23 /f3.5–4.5 ASPH, and the Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-T 55–135 /f3.5-5.6 ASPH. These are 17–35 mm and 80–200 mm equivalents in 135mm terms. No prices yet, but based on the first two lenses you can expect them to be north of $2,000 each. Leica optical quality does not come cheaply.
Performance and Features
There is more to a camera than image quality. Much more. How it performs and handles, how responsive it is in ones hands, and numerous ergonomic factors need to be considered. But, as mentioned at the top of this report, the camera under discussion here is a beta version and firmware still has a number of weeks to go until it is locked for shipment.
There are a number of things that differentiate the Leica T from other cameras in this mirrorless category, including several features which some photographers will find lacking. I will list them below. But before I do I should mention that I see the Leica T as not a camera for photojournalist or other pros. Instead it is more appropriately marketed to the affluent amateur who wants a simple to use, and elegantly designed camera. Whether it meets the needs of other constituencies remains to be decided by each individual after a hands-on session with a production camera.
What's Here?
This is a very minimalist camera from an operational point of view. Yet, it offers a broad range of features and capabilities though these are hidden behind its extremely simple exterior.
I should mention that this is possibly the first serious camera that can be picked up by someone without in-depth photographic experience, and set-up and used without a user manual. It is a bit like an iPhone in that regard. A simple fold-out guide to basic functions is provided, with lots of illustrations, and then you just dive in and figure it out. It's surprisingly intuitive.
With the exception of the two deeply recessed thumb wheels, there are no physical controls other than the shutter release, and movie button. Everything is controlled via the touch screen and one of two menus. The main screen offers icons that allow for shooting mode selection and shooting screen display choices. A camera icon then leads to the main menu. There is also a secondary menu with less used items one level down.
What works very well is the ability to populate the main camera menu with those items, and just those items, that you need for your style of shooting. This is done by a simple Hold / Drag / Drop, in the same way that one moves items around and groups them on an iPhone screen. Similarly one of the scroll wheels can be given one of several different functions. So, for example, in A or S modes the second wheel can be assigned Exposure Compensation.
The user interface is very much in the current smartphone paradigm. Not that the Leica T is in any way like a Smartphone, but also, like the touch screens we are seeing on higher-end cars, this means of controlling complex devices has a certain appeal. I have to point out that it is not for the power user - who is likely better served by a camera with more accessible controls.
For this reason the serious photographer will naturally go hurrumph, but he or she is not the target customer for the Leica T. Rather, I believe that this is a camera for the well-heeled amateur who wants a camera that is simple to operate, uncomplicated, and has a prestige look and identity. Dare I write that this new Leica fits that description to a "T".
At my New York meeting with Leica I said at one point that just based on looks and "feel" alone this is the type of objet desiré that a wealthy traveler might see in an airport duty free boutique window and buy on impulse. Have you ever noticed how many expensive watches are found in those stores? Yup, the Leica T will appeal to the same demographic that buys a $5,000 watch at a duty free store while traveling abroad, when they might not do so when at home. It's just the psychology of money and travel, and Leica is likely to benefit from it with the T. I feel that Leica has hit this particular nail right on the head.
Overall Image and Lens Quality
If you're looking for an objective, scientific test, you've come to the wrong place. I used to use a DxO test system - years ago, but then found that my subjective evaluations always satisfied me more. So, if you're looking for graphs and numbers, please check with DxO Labs and with sites like DPReview.
Based on limited use thus far, I can say that overall image quality from the Leica T's sensor is first rate. The T's IQ is state-of-the-art, and to the extent that there is a Leica "look", the T has it. Now, this may be a result of using Leica glass, because these certainly have more of a "look" than does a sensor. But, the combination of the two with the Leica T, has a "signature" that Leica aficionados will recognize and greatly enjoy. You can even see it on samples here, at web sizes. In prints it's quite noticeable.
What's Missing?
There are a number of competitive features which I feel the Leica T lacks. These may or may not be important to a given photographer.
– no on-screen level indicator
– no exposure lock or focus lock (this could be added in future by making the video button an optionally programmable custom function)
– no optical stabilization, either from the sensor or lenses
There are several other issues in the current firmware, and these are mentioned below, though because they are mostly firmware based possibly some are slated for correction prior to first ship.
Not Tested
I have not had the opportunity to test the Leica T's video capability, but I don't expect it to be anything much different from that found in most CSCs today. There is a Leica M lens adaptor which can read the 6 bit encoding on most Leica lenses. Other than testing that this works, I can't add much at this time. My colleague Sean Reid at Reidreviews has researched this and covers it in greater depth in his just-published Leica T reviews.
Noise Characteristics
Almost all camera with MFT or APS-C sized sensors these days have really quite good high ISO performance. But, for most photographers there's the need to know how the higher ISOs perform. So here, using my standardized testing protocol, are a series of 100% on-screen crops at the camera's various ISOs.
ISOs 100 through about 800 were very clean. 1600 needs a bit of help with post processing noise reduction, and even up to and including ISO 6400 raws can be quite usable with a bit of work.
Please note that the ISO 800 shot above is slightly blurred. Since all shots were taken at the same time
and in the same manner (tripod / self timer), I explored the problem and discovered that there appears to be
some shutter vibration at around 1/3rd of a second.Two test runs showed the same results.
A bit faster or a bit slower a shutter speed and no vibration was detected. It is not clear to me if this an anomaly or not.
Beta Firmware Bugs
As mentioned at the beginning of the page, the Leica T firmware is still in beta. But, a reviewer's job is to point out what they know, so – as of 22 April, the following are the critiques that I have forwarded to Leica re the last firmware version. I would expect a number of these will be addressed before the camera first ships to end users.
No focus lock or AE lock. These could and should be user programmable to the Video button.
The detent on EVF tilt is not firm enough.
There is no lock on the EVF diopter adjustment.
There is just single shot or 5 FPS. There should be an intermediate speed, otherwise its not possible to shoot in controlled bursts. Right now it's all or nothing.
There is no way to turn off Review (the minimum is 1 second). Many photographers do not want instant review on a mirrorless camera, as it blocks their seeing.
If you are shooting in Touch Focus mode, when you try and play back the image by swiping the screen you will unintentionally change the focus point.
When displaying the live Histogram, it disappears when the shutter is half pressed. On a camera without focus lock or exposure lock this is frustrating.
There is no highlight overexposure warning when shooting.
There is no highlight overexposure warning on image review.
There is no focus peaking when manual focusing, though the two stage image magnification works very well.
The self timer is not sticky. It resets after each exposure. This should be a user selectable option. Stay on always, or turn off after each shot.
When formatting there is no confirmation message.
Performance... the current camera is slower in some parameters than other current mirrorless cameras.
The camera cannot shoot only raws. Some users don't need or want JPGs.
In Summary
As mentioned at the top of this review, I am a some-time beta tester for Leica, and it is based on this experience using the Leica T that this beta report is written. Am I unbiased? Of course not. I have been a mostly happy Leica user since the mid-1960's and have a friendly relationship with the company. ( No, I am not paid in any way for my testing, and I do not get any free gear. Everything goes back to Leica after the test period.)
But a favourable attitude toward a company does not mean that I overlook their mistakes. Long-time readers know that I call them as I see them.
I have mentioned the camera's strengths as well as some of its weaknesses. If this doesn't seem to you to be the kind of camera that hard-core photographers might be interested in, you'd be right. It never was intended to be. The camera itself has nothing like the range of features and capabilities that its prime competitors have to offer, but then it isn't intended to. Thus any such comparison would be pointless.
The Leica T is not, in my view, intended to compete in the same marketplace as cameras like the Fuji XT, Panasonic GH4 or Olympus OM-D EM-1. Though the body is not dissimilarly priced, the two currently available lenses are priced well above the competition. But then, they are Leica lenses after all.
In its target market – affluent amateurs who want simplicity of operation combined with great image quality, prestigious look, feel, and branding, the Leica T satisfies - to a T.
Michael Reichmann
April 24, 2014


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Opened it up, and it totally made my day.. no not my day- my week. It's a flag; which was flown over in the face of the enemy by 912th Forward Surgical Team, during Operation New Dawn, defending Freedom, Liberty and Justice at COS Gary Owen, Al Amarah, Iraq on 4th of July..
I got the actual picture from Pete today talking to him on Skype.. and there is the Flag! He is mentioned in this great article, all these guys are hero's- let me know if you want to send anything over, or give me some new ideas for what to send in my next care package to Dave and Pete
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The nod goes to Tigers in 1st blockbusterBY RALPH D. RUSSO
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Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray attempts a pass during a practice last Friday in Athens, Ga. The fifth-ranked Bulldogs open the season Saturday at No. 8 Clemson.OK, ACC, this is your chance.
The first month or so of the college football season is as much about how conferences fare against each other as it is about which teams win.
The Atlantic Coast Conference, forever trying to shed its reputation as the fifth best of the major football leagues, gets three shots to knock off the neighborhood bully SEC during the opening weekend.
On Thursday night, North Carolina takes on No. 6 South Carolina, one of six Southeastern Conference teams ranked in the Top 12 of the AP preseason poll.
Virginia Tech can pull off a huge upset Saturday when it faces No. 1 Alabama in Atlanta.
The main event comes Saturday night in Death Valley the one in South Carolina.
No. 8 Clemson plays No. 5 Georgia. Its the Tigers third straight game against the SEC after losing to South Carolina to end last regular season and beating LSU in the Chick-fil-A bowl.
Regardless of what conference theyre from, youve got the No. 5 team coming to your stadium, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. Thats all that really matters.
Well, maybe to you coach.
Aside from Clemson, the ACC went 0-5 against the SEC last season.
The ACC also gets a crack at Penn State (vs. Syracuse), BYU (at Virginia) and Louisiana Tech (at North Carolina State) during the opening weekend.
Win about half those big games and the ACC gets to boast. Win no more than one, and the when-does-basketball-season-start? jokes begin.
The picks (all games Saturday unless noted).
No. 5 Georgia (minus 2)
at No. 8 Clemson
Tajh Boyd, your Heisman front-runner ... CLEMSON 45-38.
North Carolina (plus 11½)
at No. 6 South Carolina
Jadeveon Clowney meet Tar Heels QB Bryn Renner. Hes not scared ... SOUTH CAROLINA 28-17.
No. 1 Alabama (minus 19½) vs.
Virginia Tech at Atlanta
Tide too much for Logan Thomas and banged-up Hokies ... ALABAMA 34-10.
Rice (off) vs.
No. 7 Texas A&M
Will Johnny Football play? Either way ... TEXAS A&M 48-14.
No. 12 LSU (minus 4½) vs. No. 20 TCU at Arlington, Texas
Lots of new starters, same tenacious LSU defense ... LSU 24-17.
No. 13 Oklahoma State (minus 12½)
vs. Mississippi State
Two quarterbacks equals twice the fun for Cowboys ... OKLAHOMA STATE 42-21.
No. 22 Northwestern (minus
6) at California
Wildcats ruin debut of Cals Bear Raid offense ... NORTHWESTERN 35-17.
No. 19 Boise State (plus
3½) at Washington
Grand re-opening of Husky Stadium, but Broncos are ultimate party poopers ... BOISE STATE 23-20.
Toledo (plus 23½) at No. 10 Florida
Louisiana-Monroe (plus 22) at No. 16 Oklahoma ... OKLAHOMA 48-17.
Nevada (plus 20½) at No. 21 UCLA ... UCLA 49-31.
Ohio (plus 20½) at No. 9 Louisville, Sunday ... LOUISVILLE 31-17.
No. 11 Florida State (minus 10) at Pittsburgh, Monday ... FLORIDA STATE 23-7.
Eastern Washington (no line) at No. 25 Oregon State ... OREGON STATE 40-21.
The MAC is coming off one of its most successful seasons and Toledo and Ohio are both expected to be championship contenders. ULM was an early-season darling in 2012, knocking off Arkansas and nearly beating Auburn and Baylor. Nevadas pistol offense is potent and Pittsburgh brings a tough defense, though not much offense, to its ACC debut. Eastern Washington is one of the top FCS programs in the country.
No. 24 Southern California (minus 21) at Hawaii, Thursday ... USC 50-24.
Buffalo (plus 35) at No. 2 Ohio State ... OHIO STATE 45-7.
Nicholls State (no line) at No. 3 Oregon ... OREGON 60-10.
Temple (plus 29½) at No. 14 Notre Dame ... NOTRE DAME 37-7.
New Mexico State (plus 42½) at No. 15 Texas ...TEXAS 58-10.
Central Michigan (plus 31½) at No. 17 Michigan ... MICHIGAN 38-13.
Wyoming (plus 29) at No. 18 Nebraska ... NEBRASKA 48-16.
UMass (plus 44½) at No. 23 Wisconsin ...WISCONSIN 58-10.
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A few dozen more pictures, a few dozen more hugs, and Griffin and Liddicoat were in a car in the bowels of the stadium, headed back to the hotel. The plan was to work out together at the hotel, get to bed early and catch the first flight to Dulles on Sunday morning. On Monday, Griffin starts another work week as the quarterback of the Redskins, with the first-place New York Giants visiting FedEx Field the following Monday night.
What more could he have asked from the weekend? It played out as if scripted by Griffin himself: The wins came in pairs, the touchdowns came in bunches, the love came in bushels, and even the hatred of Cowboys Nation felt clean and full of more awe than bile.
"To play the way we played on Thursday," Griffin said, "and then get to come to this game and watch the Bears become bowl eligible for the third straight year – it's just been an amazing few days."
But then Griffin's phone started chirping. Some more people were looking to get pictures taken with him. Was he still around? Could he come to the field?
Griffin climbed out of the car and walked back through the tunnel. He draped his arms around a few more shoulders, smiled into a few more cameras, shook a few more hands. After the last one, he paused for a few seconds to make sure everyone was good.
:idea: I WILL win the lottery and I WILL [censored] Kate Upton (I'd include Shakira, but why be greedy? )One of them was David Windham, a former football player who appeared in three games as a replacement player for the Redskins during the strike-shortened 1987 season, and a family friend of the Griffins whose daughters ran for Robert Griffin Jr.'s youth track team in Copperas Cove.
"I remember the first time I met Robert," Windham said of the younger Griffin. "He was 12 years old, and it was at a track meet. I immediately called up all my friends and my brothers and said, 'I just saw the next world's greatest athlete.' This kid was destined for stardom. He was doing all the events back then — high jump, long jump, hurdles — and was winning all of them.
"I asked him, 'Son, what do you want to be when you grow up?' He said, 'It's not about what I want to be, sir — it's what I will be. I will be an NFL quarterback, and I will be a lawyer.' "
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Published February 2013. See printable PDF transcript.
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