Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The M8/M8.2 are much like a Porsche 911...iconic design, instantly recognizeable, efficient in their handling and operation. I do believe the M8/M8.2 will be classics down the photography road. The file size is more than adequate for almost anyone, including the publishing industry, and fewer machines make the operator smile as much when using, well, except maybe a Porsche! Roger Hart AutoWeek magazine Detroit On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll at telefonica.net>wrote: > Thank you Mark for your clever comments, I think you are really right. But > maybe these theories can incommadte the evolution and globalization > thoughts > of our days, where some technoplogical improvements are not a real need of > the market. > > Cheers and Saludos (in Spanish) > Lluis > > > El 29/06/2009, a las 21:53, Mark Rabiner escribi?: > > Which digital cameras made in the past years will people want to pick up >> in >> ten years from now and go out and shoot with like we do with an M3 now? >> >> Not many but maybe the M8; >> Maybe the D700 Dave is now shooting with with R glass. >> >> >> I think specs are not going to out date cameras in this second decade so >> much. >> I think things will even out at a dozen megapixels and 24x36mm chip >> format. >> Vibration reduction will become the rule not the exception. >> >> >> I don't think the 16 megapixel cameras will turn the 12 megapixel cameras >> in >> to has been clunkers. There are cameras with twice that pixel count now >> and >> its just not needed for most stuff. >> A D3 has more a shot at classic status than a D3x. >> As for every shooter out there with a D3x there will be thousands with a >> D3. >> We don't need no x. >> A D3 is an F. >> >> I think things will become a solid 16 bit workflo. >> That's not going to turn the 12 bit cameras into junk. >> >> >> We've in a digital sense past by the UR Leica (1914) era, >> gotten by the Leica 0's (1923) era and have just past the era of digital >> Leica 1's. (1933) >> >> I think we are shooting digital Leica II's and III's now. >> >> The M has not come out yet. >> >> It's the early 50's. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Lluis Ripoll > luisripoll at telefonica.net > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ > http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll > Blog: > http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ > > http://www.lrmusic.es > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >