Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, presume etc.) DOES design digital cameras...and is a senior scientist for > one of the top digital camera manufacturers now...and probably knows as much > if not more than most anyone on this subject. If you really do have more > experience than that, I'd really like to know. Other than a doctorate in physics, no, I don't have more experience. But -- and I hate to harp on this -- I simply made the point as a photographer, not as an engineer. Of course most solutions -- even, oh, my, analog ones -- fall short of ideals. That's life. But there's a huge difference, I think we can all agree, between an engineer's dream and a tool with which a photographer can produce some fine work. Period, end of story. A digital M? Why the hell not? It would be convenient. Not perfect, but convenient. Period, end of story. That's ALL I WAS SAYING. This reminds me of a certain third-party manufacturer of tripod accessories we all know (and whose equipment is marvelous). Talking to him or reading his papers, you'd come away feeling that any photograph not taken by a camera bolted onto an Arca B-1, preferably atop the biggest Ries tripod you can find anchored by a fifty-pound bag of sand and a 1/8000 shutter speed, sucks. Well, if LPM is one's only concern, then fine. But that's not how most of us use Leica M's. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html