Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amen! Cheers Lluis > El 25 set 2024, a les 4:43, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> va escriure: > > It is also fair to mention that there are a LOT of M's out there. Spare > parts could be fashioned form raw steel, etc or could be scavenged form a > different body. Any mechanical camera can be made today, given the right > technical skills. > > But you can not, without billions of dollars, make a 256mb dRam chip. And > that is why digital camera have given life spans. Parts to make them are > out of production. > > Ever notic how every new DigiM is compared to the M3? Says something > special about that M3. > > And there is one more salient comment.... an M3, even form the original > series of manufacture (1953? 1954?) , is still a state of the art camera. > It has never been eclipsed. While I like to think of the M6 as THE best > M, with its built in meter, the M3 is equally capable of making equally > great images. It is no better than an M3. > > In digital, with all the features, and with technology making new designs > imperative ( the old 1GB Ram chips are long out of production as an > example, another being the Motorola 68000 PowerPC processors that fueled > Apple's success, when Motorola discontinued it, and Apple had to use Intel > processors....) and bigger is better, the classic M is timeless. Nothing > eclipses it. > > Try saying that about an M8. Not going to happen. > > Quickie History on Leica digital cameras.... > > The S1, a huge, first in the world Digi camera, that succeeded, to some > degree, in the market to archive documents. A failure otherwise. > > The M8. APS-C sensor killed it as full frame sensors became pretty > universal. > > The M9. The sensor cover glass fiasco killed this camera, although the > Monochrom is still a desirable camera. > > The M240. Ridiculed for being 3mm too thick. ( If you want proof that > thee isTHE correct sized Leica camera, look at what happened to the M5). > The 24MP sensor was designed and made FOR LEICA, when Sony turned down > Leica as a customer. While I have no real facts on this, the commercial > need to make a new IC ( a digital sensor is an IC that is special purpose) > was so great that they produced with this design way too late, just for > the sake of a contract to produce or purchase enough. At least they > somewhat learned their lesson.... > > Th M10 was going to go nowhere, At 24MP it was hard to differentiate to a > M240, except for that terribly large and bulky 3mm thing.......BTW, 3mm is > slightly less than 1/8 of an inch. after Leica armed it with a 40MP sensor > (M10-R) it was an instant winner. > > The M11, at 60MP is state of the art, in terms of features. Customers > claim it has too much resolution. (You can not win no matter what you > do.....) the money is betting that the M10M or M10R is THE ideal DIgi M. > Enough resolution. > > But my story is that each of these cameras was a major improvement (or > maybe the word ...further.... is better), than its predecessor. And thus > it REPLACED its predecessor, making the previous model fully eclipsed. > > Never happened with the traditional film M. Perfection from day 1. > > > > Frank Filippone > BMWRed735i at Gmail.com > > On 9/24/2024 11:14 AM, Dan Khong via LUG wrote: >> Only 10% of my cameras are digital, the rest being film. I don't expect my >> digital cameras to live beyond 20 years at most. Hardly any manufacturer >> will keep electronic spares for so long. They make more money selling new >> cameras. The IIIf and M6 can live so long because they are mechanical film >> types which can be repaired by any competent repairman. >> >> Dan K. >> >> On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 22:31, Lluis Ripoll via LUG<lug at >> leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Happy Birthday Leica M6! >>> >>> Today my M6 is 27 years old, still very young, my IIIF is 70 years old! >>> I hope that digital artifacts has also a long life! >>> #LeicaM6#lluisripollphotography >>> >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Leica_M6.jpg.html> >>> >>> Saludos cordiales >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information