Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If a Leica M ever has live view or video, it will not be an M that I want. Bells and whistles that are not needed for a digital rangefinder. Tina On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > And freaking video in the same breath! > I used live view on my DSLR extensively for landscapes. It was wonderful! > Throw on a tilt/shift lens, turn on live view that shows what you are > really getting when you stop down, watch it with a Hoodman loupe as you > fiddle with tilt and aperture until it is sharp as a tack and BOOM, what > you see is what you got! Loved it. > But not for my Leica. Since no tilt shift, all I need is an accurate hyper > focal scale and I'm there. And as for movies?? Well I'll leave that to > others to decide... > Sent from my living room where it's 100deg outside, 80 degrees inside, but > wrapped in a perpetual ice wrap which makes it like Heaven!! > Bob > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com > >wrote: > > > I don't understand this focus on Live View. That's a key advantage with > > CMOS > > in an M10? I'd call it a detriment not an asset! Leica's going to sell > more > > cameras because of this? Maybe not to the right people. I'm just not > > looking > > forward to seeing people holding eight thousand dollar M10's at full arms > > lengh in front of them as they take snap shots in Times Square. From an > > image standpoint to me that just looks bad. > > A kind of thing getting Barnack rolling over in his grave. > > On my camera a D700 DSLR the Live View option slows down the operation of > > the camera is widely ignored by me and its other owners after trying it > for > > a minute. > > I just give the mass public credit for knowing that when you buy a hand > > constructed German camera for thousands of dollars Its for putting up to > > your face not holding out like an offering like using a cell phone camera > > or > > cheap point and shoot. I don't see people with big fat DSLR's which have > > now > > the option now using it that way. > > Perhaps Leica should give its buyers a German chocolate bar to every > > customer who allows them to disable that feature. Perhaps place a little > > leaflet in the box for the unboxing where they can read the history of > the > > Leica M for mechanical rangefinder mechanism working with triangulation > to > > give you a focus many times more accurate than a groundglass if there is > > one. > > It should not be circumvented so lightly. > > Either is the viewfinder mechanism with its automatic frame lines. > > > > > > - - from my iRabs. > > Mark Rabiner > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > > > > > > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:16:36 -0700 > > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel > > > > > > Thanks for sharing. It's confirming what we know.... > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM, John McMaster <john at > > > chiaroscuro.co.nz > > >wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> > > > http://the.me/interview-with-stefan-daniel-leica-director-product-management > > >> -next-target-non-leica-users/ > > >> > > >> john > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Bob Adler > http://www.rgaphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com