Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not one to pump poison into the pumpkin, but I say let all those digital dorks divest their film cameras for digital as the resulting price dump for film equipment will enrich my collection tenfold. And who can blame them? Everybody needs the digital format to take prissy family poses of children with gravy on their shirts. Great for 30 year school reunions, too. How better to leave the expanding wife at home and in her stead bring digital snapshots Photoshopped to look 50 pounds lighter--the pretty princess of the cheerleader squad looks as sparkling as she did at 16. And she resides in your nest. Who's to know? Sam S Don Dory wrote: > Mark, > Over on the Luminous Landscape site they have done a comparison of > medium format backs. The basic premise is that the larger sensor is > better than the one on the 1Ds but that you needed a dedicated body > combination to take advantage of the digital back. So, all the Hassy > gear is being turned in because the various bodies don't deal well with > one shot backs. This is why the deal with Fuji went through, to have a > dedicated back. > > Another answer is the classic, it's good enough. A third answer is that > it is now a digital file you are selling so the art director can't get > all hissy over wanting a certain size transparency on the light table. > > Don > dorysrus@mindsprig.com > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html