Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, it looks like I'll be keeping my DMR for a very long time!! The prices of R glass will go into free fall at this rate. Charlie On 15 May 2008, at 07:59, Mark Rabiner wrote: > http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/5316/the-future-of-leica > > . > html > > In this interview with Jason Schneider at RIT Andreas Kaufmann > shatters a > couple of very key assumptions or opinions I have about Leicas very > much > needed direction. > > Imagine no full frame digital Leica rangefinder. > Imagine no digital R body. > > > The second because our new Top Leica man seems to feel that a DSLR > needs to > be AF. > A very very wrong feeling in my opinion. > > Imagine whirled peas. > > > That's a whole lot of very bad news in one interview. > Very bad PR. > If I was the boss I'd fire myself on the spot. > > The R lineup of glass is nothing to cough at. > The R system needs and deserves a compact R digital body. > And so does the world. > Including me! > I'd buy one. I'd buy two! How about you? > > I don't need AutoFocus; > I AM AutoFocus. > > I focused my 24mm Nikkor 2.8 lens down Broadway for three miles > tonight from > 62nd to 110. On a Nikon D40x. > A whole lot of DSLR shooting is done with the AF turned off or with > older AI > lenses not just by me but by a lot of serious non Leica loving > people I > know. > > R&D needs to be continued to bend those little image grabbers at the > ends of > the CCD sensors inward so a lens right in the sensors face can be > used right > out to its intended image non crop circle on a digital M. > > And they should make for for a Hasselblad superwide while they're > at it. > > A high end imaging company investing into crop circle formats > strikes me as > a highly questionable paranormal eyebrow raiser. > Within 9 months with Nikon and Canon both in heavy competition > bringing the > prices down a huge movement will be created to anyone with the > slightest > pretensions to shooting a quality image to shooting 24x36 format. > Kids at > RIT for sure. Anyone with a bigger than letter sized inkjet printer. > Ebayers > who need to be shooting with the perceived latest best thing. > > The idea of Leica M glass coasting thousands of USD each only being > used in > its middle area is going to seem very off beat wacky in the year 2009. > > Can half frame film cameras compete against full frame cameras? > Not in the production of quality images. > Which means > BIG PRINTS. And smaller prints and images made at very high ISO's. > Imagine Leica modern mediocrity. > > > Hasselblad went AF became it was bought out by a high tech company > with > little empathy and touch with Hasselblad tradition and it customer > base. > No heart. Hasselblad is dead. > > I expected more from what's happening now with Leica. > I thought I was looking at some heart. > > You gotta have heart. > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information