Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<The D30 can take some pretty nice photographs! But it is high maintenance in <terms of the thought process required to run the camera. The R8 can take some <pretty nice photographs also. But the designers seem to have thought out what <you NEED and made it available and easy to use. Adam As I am a user of the D30 I have read your mail in detail. Yes you are comparing apples and oranges. One of the finest manual focus SLR with a medium class digital SLR. A comparison with a Nikon D1x or a Canon 1D would habe been much better. But really the D30 can take some pretty nice pictures, I know! In fact the only book I have sold in my life, I'm not a pro, was shooted with a Canon D30! But I cannot agree about ergonomics. I feel that modern SLR cameras like Canon EOS has very few buttons and in some minutes you get it. Perhaps I change so often of system that I'm used to many different buttons in many different cameras but I can get most of so many possibilities than I do prefer that. And of course, nor Leica nor any other manufaturer will never know what so many different kinds of users NEED. Better say that a R8, I used it for some weeks and I didn't like it, is made as per YOUR needs. Kind regards Felix PS. No problem with many buttons in M cameras. I focus manually, I meter manually, I bracket manually, I load film manually not añways at first time , and I like it... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html