Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: Er...that would have been me, Ted. The problem I face now is that pretty much all the work I do nowadays calls for a digital end product. Clients want the proofs fast, and sometimes I must deliver the final product from the field. No problem, you say. Buy a Canon EOS1ds. Well, it looks like I'm going to have to do that...along with a 10D for backup. Most of what I do is adventure travel stuff. I'm away for long periods of time in remote places where just getting around can be difficult. In addition, I photograph mostly people, and it is true that the small size of the M is less intimidating to subjects. So, the M camera has been ideal for me. It is the only compact professional grade camera still in production. When I first started doing this kind of work a few years ago, I used a Canon EOS system, which I carried in a Lowe Pro Magnum bag. The first time I tried to wade through a Middle Eastern souk with that thing, I knew it wasn't going to work. Switching to an M system carried in a Domke satchel proved to be the ideal solution, and that's what I've used ever since. Finally, to get the results I want requires extremely fast lenses. The f2.8 maximum aperture of the pro zooms just doesn't cut it. Sure Canon and Nikon offer fast primes, but they are huge and, frankly, they're not the equal of the M lenses. A EOS1ds kit that gives me the result I'm after would probably be three times the weight and bulk of an M system. That's why a digtal M would be the cat's ass. I hope someone figures out how to build one without bloating it into a cartoon of a camera like the 1ds. - --Jim > There's the on going comments about an M digital that it would be the cats > ass and I want one and .........blah blah! What all these people don't > understand is....... you can't make a digital M camera in identical > configuration, certainly at the moment that'll do what many of us do with a > film loaded M whatever model one owns. Yep some day. Maybe. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html