Re: [Leica] Is the Leica an endangered species?

[Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>]

What does Canon have that is better than the S1?

Do you know anything about the $5000 3CCD Canon 
digital video recorder?  Is this what you are referring to?

Francesco



At 05:44 AM 6/22/98 , you wrote:
>At 02:57 AM 6/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>The days of emulsion film are numbered.  When you see an entire photo
>dept. at
>>a major newspaper or news agency go digital, look out, its here!  News
>footage
>>used to be done on film until video proved better. 
>
>Not even close. News photography has special needs that make digital
>imaging compelling regardless of the compromise of quality. When you're
>printing on toilet paper, it really doesn't matter that much if you don't
>have to absolute best image quality. 
>
>On another point, Canon is THE leader in digital imaging now. Leica has to
>be in second place with the S1. Nikon's (Fuji's) and Minolta's digital
>cameras are jokes in comparison. Two totally different approaches to
>digital imaging, but for each purpose, the cameras are very impressive. But
>they won't hurt film until the S3 comes out the size of an M6 with 150 meg
>image file size, and the equivalent of 100-3200 ISO available. Then I'll
>sell my R and M bodies and digitize all my photos. 
>
>Other approaches to photography that required 35mm cameras won't be
>converting en mass to digital for some time to come. There's lots of time
>left.
>-- 
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have
>learned English...no human being has been reported to have learned
>dolphinese.
>
>Carl Sagan
>