Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/28/04 8:56 AM, "Leicajay@aol.com" <Leicajay@aol.com> wrote: > <<In a message dated 3/28/04 10:06:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, > red735i@earthlink.net writes: > > >> So Leica now says they have fixed the laws of physics? There may be a work >> around that uses some clever scientific methodology. We must wait to find >> out. Nothing says this is not more marketing hype.>> >> > > Wow! Over on photo.net *I* was the lone cynic about Leica's marketing hype > vs reality, everyone else gobbled it up like M&M's after a reefer bash and > villified me for expressing reasonable doubt. I'd just like to say I'm happy > there are others on the LUG with both feet on the ground. Just the same, all > digicams use things like anti-aliasing filters and "sharpening algorithms" to > aritifically cover up the inadequacies of digital capture devices, so that a > willing (gullible?) public will consider them "photo quality" and abandon film > and > film cameras. So I am at least hopeful that Epson/Leica et al's workaround of > digtal's preference for telecentric optics will enable me to keep using the > many thousands of dollars' worth of Leica lenses I currently own when using > film becomes too costly or inconvenient to obtain and have processed. > Otherwise > I don't particularly have much interest in digital at all. And I say this as > the owner of a D60 and 1D so it's not like I've never used high-end digital > gear. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information To the mysterious "Leicajay@aol.com": Are your making prints from the output from those cameras? Are you scanner equipped? Output is a big issue here to judge the viability of new technologies. Digital has turned a lot of people who would have never done so into print makers. This increases the intensity of the photographic experience for them by tenfold. I normally don't respond to nameless posts and eventually I filter them. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/