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, For opera and other classical, you might look at Medici.tv. The video and sound quality is pretty good. You transmit wifi to an iPad, which controls the telly/hifi. Ken On 12/4/2014 9:00 AM, Robert Adler wrote: > All good to know, Geoff and Sony: stuff I didn't know as just a consumer of > former products. I loved the fidelity of my Betamax: used to play and watch > great movies, esp. opera's, over and over. Had a very nice collection. > I guess once burned, shame on me... > As for the M8, I'm not sure that info was available to those of us not well > connected to Leica: not widely announced for what I recall. Glad to hear > it: Means my M240 may have a useful life longer than 3-5 years, though my > desire for the next best from Leica may not last that long :-) > > I guess the bottom line is that the Leica takes the images I want and I > love using it. Hard to say about most other consumables: my car does the > same as does the Alpa/Phase system. 2 seems to be plenty for a non-traveler > like me. I did buy the Fuji for Jane, my wife, which I can use as a backup > if ever needed. > > And I do love the innovative thinking of Sony and Fuji: I think Leica will > certainly use some of their ideas in the future. Will certainly be slow to > market as per Leica's long history, but it will be quality and Leica like > in handling no doubt. > > Thanks again for the education! > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> As far as Sony not making lenses; they do have an array. Six are out, >> (five and one nearly out,) but of course, they do have other lenses in the >> lineup that will fit the A7x line with and without adapters. The camera >> has a mode to run E mount (NEX) lenses without vignetting. One of the >> available adapters translates autofocus for the A mount lenses to the A7 >> camera. >> >> 6 full frame full frame FE (for A7x series) >> >> 6 E mount (apc size NEX) >> >> 12 A mount (Konica A Mount) (will autocrop on Sony full frame cameras >> >> 24 full frame A mount (K A mount full frame) >> >> 2 A mount adapters for E mount cameras >> >> >> http://store.sony.com/full-frame-E-mount-lenses/cat-27-catid-All-Full-Frame-E-Mount-Lenses >> >> SonC >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> 1714 >> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >