Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you haven't already, download the latest Leica M6 brochure: It's the freshest thinking I've seen out of Leica in some time, and it makes me want to go out and buy an M6--even though I already own one! I took a quick look at the Digilux Zoom info and was about to move on when I spotted Leica's new slide/negative transfer gadget that works with it. I assume it's really designed for light, non-critical use, but this too, is clever thinking: With this modest gadget, Leica has taken a rebadged Fuji camera and added a new twist of their own. I want one of these things--I have a lot of images that I want to experiment with, but am not always ready to commit to a $40 drum scan or wait for PhotoCD transfers. And I wouldn't be real happy at spending hundreds, even thousands of dollars on a scanner that could not at least match PhotoCD, so this may be the (hopefully cheap) alternative I've been looking for. Now 1.5 million pixels isn't a lot by today's standards, but that's an optical zoom there, and the camera looks to be small enough to make a nice point-and-shoot too. There's still more to be done: The R-system, for instance, and making the gear more accessible, either by lower prices, promotions or financing. But if the above is any indication, I think Mr. Kohn's reign will be a good one for Leica fans. Now, how's about a $350 Cosina-based R starter package..! - -- Jeff Segawa Boulder, Colorado www.boulder.net/~4season