Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > My prediction ( that no one asked for) :Get the lenses when you can... > they > are not going to last long in production. Argue about quality lp/mm or > any > other techie stuff you wish to argue about later. > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > I would certainly agree on this one Frank ! It is a tough crowd to please - allmost like if Zeiss does not come up with something better than Leica at half the price and then while they are at it trows in a digital M - then Zeiss is failing. Pre production prototypes are hard to get working and I feel sorry for Zeiss that the cameras on Photokina did not work. Some 20 years ago an inventor in Denmark had put his livesavings into a small hybrid electric car that was so much a head of the competion. He and his assistant had been working non stop and no sleep the last 48 hours before the Grand presentation at the Forum in Copenhagen to get the last pieces together. When the car was revieled, the assistant had fallen asleep inside the car under the cloth covering it. Still at sleep he was so shocked by al the flaslights from the press photographers that he "floored" the gas pedal - drove for 25 meters and crashed the car totally into the side of the arena. The poor inventor whent broke. of the zeiss topic: I do not totally agree with those who state that film vs. digital is the same as vinyl records vs. compact disks for music. With the old vinyl records you had dust problems - you had scratching noise and wear from the stylus. Film is a hard copy of you photo - not depending on any media or mac/pc platform etc. Once the film is scanned you can store the film in one place and the back media of the scan in another place. It is not tha I do not see some great opportunities with a digital M but how can you convince Leica to drop all the an?ying extra functions and just make it a rangefinder tha records the image digitally and not som monstrer with flipping screens, automated programms and edditing feautures you are not going to use anyway as the sille lcd screen never will be good eneugh to judge anything on. ruben