Re: [Leica] Digilux = Fuji MX-700 = JVC GC-S5

["Paal Newman" <name7000@hotmail.com>]

>Subject: [Leica] Digilux = Fuji MX-700 = JVC 
GC-S5
>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:38:37 +0200
>From: Pascal <cyberdog@ibm.net>
>To: "Leica Users Group" 
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>
>Just finished reading the Sept 21 international 
Newsweek issue. There is 
>an advertisement section on photography and 
electronic imaging.
>Two interesting things to note:

   If you are interesting...there's another OEM version of the Fuji 
MX700, the Toshiba PDR-M1 (the worst name for a camera ever.)  The 
features are exactly the same, but the appearance is different.  It's 
not vertical design, so it's more like a normal camera and it takes 4 AA 
batteries instead of the Li-ion rechargable.  It's suppose to be the 
cheapest one.  I read it on www.imaging-resouce.com 

   Beware the new 16 meg, 32 meg smart media card enploy new design in 
which some digicams can't use them (like the current/old Oly cameras)  
PDR-M1 can use new cards, I can't remember if MX-700 can.
 
   I didn't know there's a JVC version of the MX-700.  Have fun.

                        CY

                              

>
>- an advertisement for the JVC GC-S5 digital 
camera with megapixel 
>quality, which is another disguise for the Fuji 
MX-700 (like the Leica 
>Digilux). But.... this time you get at least an 8 
MB smartmedia card 
>instead of a 2 MB card with the Digilux (2 MB 
gives you only ... 2 shots 
>at the highest quality setting!). Plus you get a 
floppy disk adapter so 
>that you can download your images from your 
smartmedia card instead of 
>via serial connection. And this is included in 
the basic package. The 
>camera has the same design as the FX-700 (unlike 
the small finishing 
>changes with the Digilux). Now I wonder how much 
it would cost in 
>comparison to the Fuji MX-700 and Digilux.
>
>- on the section "new and notable at Photokina 
'98", one can note the 
>following excerpt:
>"Leica Digilux Digital Compact. Leica pioneered 
the 35mm format camera 
>and has been associated with excellence in 
photography ever since. 
>Leica's introduction of "megapixel" digital 
camera is a sure sign that 
>electronic imaging is coming of age. The new 
Leica Digilux offers the 
>same compact size and uncompromising quality that 
has made Leica cameras 
>among the most-sought-after collector's items in 
all of photography. In 
>both appearance and operation -including the 
optical viewfinder and 
>operating controls such as programmed automatic 
exposure control and 
>autofocus- the Digilux owes much to Leica's 
high-end viewfinder camera 
>designs. But instead of 35mm film, this Leica 
uses a 1.5 million 
>picture-point CCD to record high-resolution, 24 
bit color images. 
>Pictures taken with the Digilux can be viewed on 
the camera's built-in 
>two-inch color monitor, displayed on a TV screen 
or sent to a Pc where 
>they can be edited and printed."
>
>I wonder if the writers realized they were 
talking about nothing else 
>than a Fuji camera instead... It seems all the 
credit for using the 
>experience of the M rangefinder series should go 
to Fuji, and not to 
>Leica. I am sure the Digilux is a fine camera, 
but let's be honest, it is 
>not made -not even developed- by Leica.
>Just a thought.
>
>Pascal
>
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