Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > The oft repeated canard that digital forces one to 'trade up' every > 12-18 months is pretty hilarious when read so often on a list which is > probably dominated by people who are using film equipment that is > anywhere from 30-60 years old, including lenses which "glow" - meaning > they produce soft, flare prone images and often suffer from other > optical aberrations. If one can comfortably use a Leica lens > manufactured in, say, 1955, a Leica lens which may not have even then > been up to the standards being set by Zeiss and Nikon, and a lens which > is now a Coke-bottle-bottom when compared to the latest Leica lenses, > why can't one buy a 5 mgp digital camera and be happy with it for the > next five to 10 years? I'm not sure my first resopnse got through so I'll try again... Film cameras are upgraded each time we buy a new emulsion. Your analogy would be more accurate if the collective 'we' were using old films in our old cameras. I certainly wouldn't be satisfied if I were still using Kodachrome X or High Speed Ektachrome from the early 1970s, though at the time they were very satisfactory films. My 30-year-old cameras are still quite usable and produce very satisfactory results with modern films. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html