Re: [Leica] Darkroom

[John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>]

Good points BD but I grew up on slide shows and my family likes them 
too. Heck when I go home for Xmas, the other relatives insist on a 
slide show of the year's goings on. Mind you some of the in-laws doze 
rather contentedly during the proceedings but excess of turkey is 
another significant factor. There is just something about a big 
projected image that is tough to match. Personally I can only take so 
many 8x10s around the house and find 20x30s obscene excess. Tastes 
differ I guess.

I switched to the Leica M because I love the viewfinder! It is like 
wandering around with some cropping "L"s. I gave up on my SLRs because 
I wanted to see everything. There is nothing wrong with SLRs, I just 
prefer the M viewfinder. So my digital camera has to have the same 
viewfinder. I hope someday it might happen but I am not going to be 
holding my breath.

John Collier

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 02:29 PM, bdcolen wrote:

> You wrote...."First and primary is the quality of the viewfinder in
> digital cameras.
> I do not want an LCD screen, I want a crystal clear viewfinder like the
> one in my M cameras. The M finder is the closest thing to not having
> anything in my way when photographing. I already see the photo and
> squinty finders or LCDs where I cannot see everything (and I am not
> even looking at the subject) just get in the way."
>
> The only digital cameras with the kind of viewfinders you describe are
> digital point and shoots - be they high-end, like the Digilux and Canon
> G3, or low end, like any number of cameras. Their viewfinders do
> basically suck. So if you insist on looking through a window, rather
> than through the lens, you're stuck. But what you're saying hardly
> applies to the pro Nikon and Canon digitals, which are SLRs, and to a
> couple of prosumer digitals.

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>
> And then you laughingly went off on this riff - "Fourth I need a film
> recorder that can print positives that look as
> good as my projected slides. I am sorry but the file size necessary to
> make a 4 foot by 6 foot projected image look good is too expensive to
> handle for an amateur. I get my present positives cheap. They last a
> long time. They do not require frequent backing up. They are easy to
> transport and inexpensive to project. I can project a 500 slides at a
> sitting with ease and no waiting between images."
>
> Oh, goody! Slide night! That's really convenient: get out the 
> projector,
> get out the slide trays, move the sofa, set up the slide screen - and
> then force people to sit as captive audience staring at your gorgeous
> slide. Hello? Can you say Nineteen-fifty-four? ROFLOL!! :-)

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