Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] DMR Fiasco
From: tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:05:12 -0700
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Were Canon FD owners as mad at Canon as R users are at Leica?  Canon at 
least had a new camera system, and an adapter.  And did not keep promising a 
nonexistent solution.  And there was no issue about battery availability.  
;-)





On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:44 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at 
gmail.com> wrote:

> Although they won't meter, the AIS lenses will WORK. And getting AI lenses 
> converted to AIS is not difficult. I think Nikon's refusal to evolve their 
> hardware is probably their biggest selling point with many pros. My joy at 
> still being able to use my MF 300 f2.8 is vast......
> 
> (Metering is overrated on digital bodies anyway. I rarely if ever use it. 
> i start with a guess and adjust through histogram, I suspect most luggers 
> are the same way.)
> 
> 
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 3:06 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> 
>> Maybe you could also call for an uprising against Nikon for changing the
>> lens mount so that those tens if not hundreds of thousands of AI and AIS
>> lenses would no longer meter on most Nikon SLRs now made ;-) Hardware does
>> evolve. No need to call for a Jihad ;-)
>> 
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>> 
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Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] DMR Fiasco)
In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] DMR Fiasco)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] DMR Fiasco)
Message from leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the lug) ([Leica] DMR Fiasco)