Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/26

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Subject: [Leica] Sean Reid's R-D1 review
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Fri Nov 26 13:55:13 2004
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I think it's easier for Epson or any of the Japanese camera makers who
have already done digital in-house, to have done this than it is for
Leica who feels they are responsible for the optics.

I can hear the whining from this group if Leica had made a digital
that DIDN'T work with all the Leica M mount lenses. There'd have been
NO END to the complaining.

Yes, it's definitely too bad that Leica didn't invest immediately into
the technology to ride the leadership curve. But since when has Leica
done this? As long as they can count on the collector's market to buy
lenses and cameras with no regard to how good they really are...well,
there's no incentive to jump on the very expensive bandwagon.

So now Leica, and users of their lenses, are paying the price. I'm
doing okay with a hybrid work-flow although I think there's a Nikon
5000 in my future. The investment I have in adaptors for that scanner
will transfer to the new one. I don't have USB2 built into my machine
so I'll have to buy a card for my PowerMac but those are pretty cheap.
I'll be interested in scanning the same black and white images on both
scanners and seeing if there's really a problem with grain aliasing.
Somehow I seem to have missed that to date.

Adam

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