Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The fact that the new Leica M will be a huge thing for Leica and Leica use a defining moment is I'm sure well excepted by those in the photo industry; those on the Canon and Nikon lists; everywhere but on this Leica list where toy camera use of five and dime smaller format consumer cameras have won the hearts of most of its members who would rather spend 700 on a body than 7000 and with half the rest determined that the first out Leica digital they bought 7 years ago is good for the whatever decades to come. This new Leica M with its pitiful Cmos sensor and un needed higher ISOs is going to put Leica on the map like the M8 and M9 didn't even begin to do. A thing which should go without saying that you can say anywhere but on the Leica users list. On 12/31/12 1:25 PM, "Mark William Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I forgot to add in this alternate use of the Leica M's digital or analog > for > landscapes the use of the bottom ISO's and tripod use normally goes along > with it for sure. > I do think the preferred tools for this area of image making is going to > remain in larger formats... bigger sensors. Despite are ability to stitch > and multiple expose. I think a Leica S2 is a perfect camera for such > work... > An obvious choice. And they can also stitch and multiple expose. > I think when the M in effect "10" comes out it will be re embraced by long > standing die hard street shooters. And for every guy with his M on a tripod > shooting at ISO 100 there will be a thousand hand holding on the streets > shooting a ISO 6400 turning out brilliant shots that the Leica was designed > to do from day one i.e. Oskar Barnack shooting the flooded streets in > Wetzlar hand held. > > On 12/31/12 1:14 PM, "Mark William Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> I do think using a 24x36mm rangefinder camera as if its a larger format >> camera for landscapes is not all that common other places or here. Its >> something one can do with a Leica rangefinder camera - I've done it its >> just >> not its first thing its really designed to do or what the Leica M system >> is >> known for and has a brilliant track record in dong. --- as a street camera >> in the film days with 400 films or above and now in the digital days with >> the Leica M coming out will be above that those speeds (iso 1600) >> As a result I do think we'll go from seeing pretty much no to shooters >> using >> Leica digital M's to the fair niche market share it had in the the film >> 90's. >> >> >> On 12/31/12 12:38 PM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Robert Adler wrote: >>> >>>> Not too sure about it rivaling medium to large format... >>> >>> I'd imagine that exposing and merging multiple M9 frames >>> would begin to "rival" medium format CCD sensor real estate ;~) >>> >>> Regards, >>> George Lottermoser >>> george at imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/