Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, I hear your pain about Beta, but it was bettah. Funny thing, I had it at home, and kept using it for my off-air recordings quite happily as it was head and shoulders over VHS. (I still have my machine.) We had a VHS machine for rental tapes. On the other hand, in the broadcast field, by the early eighties, Beta morphed into Betacam and became the standard for broadcast. We used it for Electronic News Gathering for a long time and is still used for archiving in a many places. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed! I got screwed by Betamax and have never bought into Sony ideas that > have their foundation in proprietary tech since. Betamax was of much higher > quality than VHS, if anyone remembers. I'm all about quality (this is a > Leica list, yes?). Then poof, it was gone. My player broke a year later and > that was that. > They came out with stereo minidiscs that were supposed to be the > audiophile's dream come true for digital music portability. Gone in 2 > years: poof! Glad I didn't buy into that. > Fuji may do the same, but certainly seems committed. Leica has finally > stepped up to the digital plate, albeit slowly and somewhat behind the big > tech companies. But is sure is still around and still a quality product. A > bit disconcerting with dropping support of the M8 though (did they?). > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> > wrote: > > > > > On 2014-12-03, at 12:12 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Another interesting one - Sony vs Fuji: > > > > > > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/12/the-big-difference-between-sony-and-fuji.html > > > > > > Cheers > > > Jayanand > > > > > > > > > That's pretty much what I've always thought about Sony and Fuji as well. > > On top of that, Sony seems to have this incredible itch to go off in a > > completely new direction every 6 months. > > > > Henning Wulff > > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Bob Adler > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA