Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The idea of shooting video with an M11 will sound abhorrent to many but not to me. Can't wait to mount my mini stereo Leica shotgun microphone on the hot shoe. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:41:09 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel > > I don't understand this focus on Live View. That's a key advantage with > CMOS > in an M10? I'd call it a detriment not an asset! Leica's going to sell more > cameras because of this? Maybe not to the right people. I'm just not > looking > forward to seeing people holding eight thousand dollar M10's at full arms > lengh in front of them as they take snap shots in Times Square. From an > image standpoint to me that just looks bad. > A kind of thing getting Barnack rolling over in his grave. > On my camera a D700 DSLR the Live View option slows down the operation of > the camera is widely ignored by me and its other owners after trying it for > a minute. > I just give the mass public credit for knowing that when you buy a hand > constructed German camera for thousands of dollars Its for putting up to > your face not holding out like an offering like using a cell phone camera > or > cheap point and shoot. I don't see people with big fat DSLR's which have > now > the option now using it that way. > Perhaps Leica should give its buyers a German chocolate bar to every > customer who allows them to disable that feature. Perhaps place a little > leaflet in the box for the unboxing where they can read the history of the > Leica M for mechanical rangefinder mechanism working with triangulation to > give you a focus many times more accurate than a groundglass if there is > one. > It should not be circumvented so lightly. > Either is the viewfinder mechanism with its automatic frame lines. > > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > >> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:16:36 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel >> >> Thanks for sharing. It's confirming what we know.... >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM, John McMaster <john at >> chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote: >> >>> >>> http://the.me/interview-with-stefan-daniel-leica-director-product-management >>> -next-target-non-leica-users/ >>> >>> john >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information