Re: [Leica] Digital Aesthetic

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Jim

"Mature Product"?  You must be joking!   There are no fully mature
digital photo products now.  The industry is in such a state of flux, with
ever improving technology, that there won't be any mature products
in the next ? years.  You can do one of three things:

    1-Buy the best you can afford currently, living with and within
        its limits, mastering it.

    2-Constantly upgrade with every change in the technology, and never
        fully master each upgrade.

    3-Hang back and wait for stabilization or a "maturing".

Which are you?

Jerry

Jim Laurel wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital Aesthetic
>
> > Jim - I think you may be further confusing things...;-)
> >
> > First off, deciding against a 1Ds because it may get upgraded makes less
> > than no sense - unless you are a sports or other high-speed shooter who
> > will need to upgrade to get higher-fps speeds as they come along. For
> > the rest of us, the quality a 1Ds with its 35 mm full-frame, 11 mg
> > sensor is all anyone would need for a lonnnnng time to come.
>
> B.D. - It's not pixel density or buffer speed I'm concerned about.  I
> wouldn't mind springing for a 1Ds if I felt it was a completely mature
> product.  The thing that concerns me about it most is the awful chromatic
> aberration in extreme high contrast areas of photos taken with ultra-wide
> angle lenses.  To be sure, the 11mp sensor resolves so much detail that it
> reveals lens flaws that have always been there, but it also seems to
> exacerbate chromatic aberration in wide angle lenses.  Some examples I've
> seen with the Canon 17-35 are bad enough to make the resulting photos almost
> unusable.  So, I expect that Canon will do at least a minor rev on the 1Ds
> relatively soon to at least mitigate this problem.  Some have suggested that
> it may take the form of some modification of the sensor surface.  Others
> have suggested that it could be corrected digitally in the firmware.
>
> Besides, I'm an old tech guy who knows better than to buy a v1.0 product!
> ;-)
>
> --Jim
>
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