[Leica] DMR wins award

[rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)]

Reliable fairies  have told me that the DMR will be upgradeable, with a 
better sensor, in due course.  To me that would be very attractive.  
Makes good sense too.  The DMR as it is should remain competitive with 
what one wants from a digital capture machine for quite some time, but 
upgradeability would help keep up with the Joneses.  I think they might 
sell quite a few.

Rick


On 08/03/2005, at 11:14 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> The fact that the Canon or Nikon will mount a Leica R lens is 
> important,
> however there is a big BUT.
>
> The fact is that you lose all AF, all AE ( shutter priority only if 
> there is
> a choice), and all auto Diaphragm operation.  Most of the AF and AE 
> can be
> lived with, but there is a big negative in non auto stop down 
> operation.
> Using a lens in the manual iris mode is a royal pain in the behind.  I 
> am
> surprised none of our members here have pointed it out.  Sure, there 
> is no
> issue if you use the maximum F stop of the lens, but it you want or 
> need to
> stop down, you just cannot get it done conveniently, and certainly 
> much more
> slowly.  Sure, there are those that do it, but ask them if they prefer 
> to
> manually stop down or have auto stop down.  ( take away the issue of 
> digital
> capture.)
>
> The R9/8 + DMR will be a ( limited) success just for this reason.  How 
> long
> it will last remains to be seen based upon the reliability of the 
> camera,
> the quality of the capture firmware, and the trust that the camera 
> will be
> repairable when it does need repair.  ( and the expectation of the 
> customer
> as to the length of time they expect the camera to be competitive with 
> what
> they want to do.)
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
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