[Leica] flowers with an old old (& rare) leica

[leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG)]

If you had an old old rare leica (as I do) then you could be producing 
flower images such as this:

http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/dinosaur-leica3.jpg

(At FULL RESOLUTION!) 

The Leica Digiux is superior to nearly all other cameras because it makes 
you think when you photograph. You can't simply blaze away because you have 
about fourteen photos before you need to pause and change the card, so every 
shot must be the right shot. Also, the batteries last for about 16 images 
without using the LCD, so chimping is frowned upon and dangerous as the 
camera will unexpectedly announce BYE! and shut down in the middle of 
shooting. You need to compose through the OPTICAL view finder (no ELF 
garbage here, glass only baby) and, more importantly, compose in your head. 

It slows you down, It makes you think. It's quiet. You zoom with your feet. 
The Digilux, Digilux Zoom and the Digilux 4.3 are the only real digital 
cameras true Leica users prefer. The M-9 with it's auto-everything is like a 
television compared to the works of Shakespeare in a fine folio edition.

(& now, thanks to Clayton McKee i have now cornered the market on Smart 
Media cards. If I can just get this thing connected to a car battery, I can 
shoot all afternoon.)


kc

p.s. does anybody know how many digilux's and digilux 4.3's were made? each 
of them had a production run of less than six months, so i'm thinking there 
can't be that many of them. which, you know, makes them rare. like shark 
attacks.