[Leica] A modern Leica

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Gary,

As to Live View, I have used digitals with the screen where you can view the 
image on the LCD, and quite frankly it give me a headache, I also find it 
awkward to hold and view in this fashion.  I much prefer the "old fashion" 
viewfinder, and I do not see this as a negative at all.  Isn't the optical 
view finder Live enough?

Gene
-------------- Original message from Gary Todoroff 
<datamaster@northcoastphotos.com>: -------------- 


> 
> > Does the image stabilization work on the 330? Cheers 
> >Alastair 
> 
> Darn right Alastair - that Image Stabilization works great on the 
> Olympus E-330 - just plunk her down on a table, counter top or floor 
> and shoot at 1 second exposure - perfect framing with the tilted 
> live-view screen - no problem and no shake! Howard is right, too - 
> the Digiliux 3 / Lumix L1 doesn't have the features that makes the 
> E-330 special. Also the Lumix is larger and bulkier than the Olympus. 
> In comparison the Lumix felt big and clunky, though I wouldn't mind 
> trying the Leica zoom optics on my E-330. 
> 
> I've seen the results of the questionnaire that David Young did on a 
> potential R10 (Thanks David!). 84 percent said that live view was 
> "not important"! Are Leica folks really that stuck on "tradition" and 
> not on creativity? I wonder how many people told Edison that electric 
> lights were not important - gas works just fine thank you. Live view 
> is barely here and I can hardly wait for a forward thinking engineer 
> to put the camera viewfinder in my eye glasses - and why 
> not?! Leica only got to where we revere it now because they busted 
> the mold for cameras 60 years ago. They have a chance to break 
> photography wide open again while most of the world is still 
> designing cameras like they are meant to hold FILM! 
> 
> C'mon guys - are you shooting pictures or fondling a piece of metal 
> and glass? If Leica pays attention to that 84% kind of response on 
> the R10 survey, then are we doomed to another round of ten year-old 
> designs with occasional colored leather and some silly engravings on 
> meticulous camera bodies that will never see the light of day, much 
> less take an actual photograph? The E-330 is just a beginning of what 
> can happen with digital - small, and handy, super optics, dependable 
> and one of the most creative picture taking machines to appear in 
> many years. Hmmm . . . sounds like a certain camera that started with 
> "M" in the 1950's. Only now it's almost 2007, and I'm waiting to see 
> if Leica can actually do the E-330 one better. They are talking like 
> it could happen. But are their engineers casting off the restraints 
> of tradition and really designing outside the box, both literally and 
> figuratively? If they could just shed those R and M blinders, a 
> modern Leica could be a real wonder! 
> 
> Gary Todoroff 
> Tree LUGger 
> http://northcoastphotos.com/ 
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