Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't doubt Sonny for a minute. We all come from different lines of expertise. I just wanted to point out something here that might be relevant when it comes to colors and cultures (languages). Different cultures see different colors. Linguists have studied this quite a lot (it's one of the textbook cases). We don't separate colors the same way. We might have two words and see two colors: red - orange. Another culture has one single color for our two and simply doesn't see the difference where we do. There are some pretty extreme cases of this and it is not unusual at all. Since Japanese and Indoeuropean languages belong to totally different language groups, it is not a "given" that they see colors the same way and theoretically this could be reflected in the film. I seriously doubt it though since film has a global, not a local, market. So I don't see statements about Japanese and German colors as ethnical slurs. I _do_ see the horse's mouth spewing a bunch of HS though. OF COURSE Leica would say there is a difference. Next thing we know there'll be rumors about lenses that Leica rejected are being used on Panasonics. Anything to sneak in that element of doubt and get some people to pay extra for the Red dot. I'd probably look at the warranty before I'd look at the PR statements. The Passport warranty might make it worth the Red dot. Might not. Daniel On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:25 PM 2/21/2004 -0600, you wrote: > >Yeah, Allen, and maybe we're talking a bunch of PR hooie. I use the camera. > >Every day. I take pictures with it. Probably several thousand in the almost > >a year I've had it. Probably no one on the LUG with the possible exception > >of Tina has more experinence with the two cameras than I do. I have 2 > >friends with digilux 1's. It is the same camera. Believe it. > > You're right, Sonny. I have both and the only way I can tell a difference > is that the files from the Leica begin with L and the ones from the > Panasonic begin with P!! I did adjust the software on both to do the least > possible processing. It could be that the difference is in the amount that > the software process the files, but when that is turned off, they are the same! > > >When you get information from the horse's mouth you better make sure you are > >at the right end. > > Amen! > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.workbookstock.com > http://www.newscom.com > http://www.americanphotojournalist.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html