[Leica] Leica's April 24th announcement - place your bets!

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Technology moves on.  When I was young, when going out, I needed to have 
coins in my pocket and find a pay phone if I wanted to call home. For the 
past 20 years, I have carried a mobile phone in my pocket as a matter of 
course. Initially to talk, now also to browse the web, navigate my way 
through foreign cities etc. Why would that be a bad thing? It's wonderful!

Same with cameras. In my film days, I had to carry three bodies: one loaded 
with slow slide film, one loaded with slow B&W film and a third loaded with 
fast B&W film, in my case ISO 1600, since anything faster was useless. Now 
with the Fuji X I have with me where I am right now (Maastricht), I can 
shoot at ISO 6400 and get far superior quality to what I used to get with 
film at 1600. Again, why would that be a bad thing? It is not an 
"obsession", it is merely a way to expand one's photographic possibilities.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
(sent from somewhere)


Den 06/03/2014 kl. 21.57 skrev "Jim Laurel (gmail)" <jplaurel at gmail.com>:

> I never will understand all this obsession with ultra-high ISO. Along with 
> bokeh, it has become a fetish in the photographic community.
> 
> For so many years, we traveled with the Leica M6 and a few fast lenses and 
> 100 ISO slide film, which we would sometimes push 1 stop. Only rarely did 
> I feel the need for ISO 1600. The Leica M8 was already better than 35mm 
> film at comparable ISO sensitivities. The M9 is better still and yet in 
> today's world it is considered woefully obsolete. I can understand that 
> for Chris' wedding work, 12,500 allows him to capture images that were 
> just not possible in the days of film, but few consumers have such a 
> requirement.
> 
> One thing is for sure. While a few photographers are using the new 
> capabilities of digital cameras to push creative boundaries, most simply 
> inundate us with well-exposed and sharply focused images with crazy bokeh 
> at outrageous ISOs that have little real content.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> 
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:54 AM, chris williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> No way on the M-AF mount. The M battery is already small, I would not 
>> want another battery drain.
>> 
>> I just recently shot the M 240 at a wedding. Unless there's a new version 
>> capable of 12,500 iso I don't really see a need for a new camera 
>> announcement.?
>>