[Leica] Japan Trip / R-D1 / Brian etc.

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard F. Man)]

re: Japan
Just got back. I have 15 rolls of (mainly Provia 400F) slides to process, 
all done using the M7 and 35 'lux and the Tri-Elmar. These two lens make 
great travel campanions. My wife shot about 400-500 digipics. Japan is VERY 
pretty and hopefully I will have some good pics to show for.

re: R-D1
Looks like Karen and couple others have good reports already. I went to (I 
think the same store "Bic" that Karen went to) the stores on the 21st and 
all they have is a banner that says price ~312000 yens and release in 
August. The latest Epson site says release on July 31st so at the minimum 
this thing is real.

I picked up a Leica fan magazine. I can read most of the Kanji but not the 
Japanese. Amongst the interesting tidbits is a place that can modify your 
prized Zeiss 16mm and 35mm lens to fit your Ms for around 46000 yens. They 
also completely disassemble the new MP.

re: Brian
When I worked for a LARGE computer company (the big grand-daddy of the 
Silicon Valley), it was fairly clear that for a variety of reasons, and 
unfortunately (although not really said in that way) lower salary is being 
one of them, that "younger" folks or college hires are preferred. Another 
main reason why I toil for my own company - I want to still have good 
income in 20 years (or with luck, retire by then :-) ). This is a sad 
situation that will affect more and more of the software and hardware 
engineers. I think especially with the software engineering people. With 
the hardware, at least you can clearly say experience can count a lot, but 
software is a very tricky business in that sense. Ah well....

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