Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]by the interchangeable back I meant this flappable pressure plate. It is removable on my M6 TTL, and on my M3 if I remeber well, I supposed so that this part is removable on all leica Ms, is it not the case? One of the two pins on which the plate turns (the one on which a little screw is attached) can be recessed and the flappable back can be removed (to clean the dust from occulting cloth on the flapping side for example). I hope one time Leica will come back to the device that equipped the flappable plate of the M3, with the little spring balls that keep the back in place while one put back the bottom plate, this was a useful thing. And I KNOW there is not usual interchangeable backs wich prints hour and date on the picture like on Nikons and other brands, I own two Leica M and use them, but maybe this was a misunderstanding due to my poor english, if so, I'm sorry, do apologize this please. I just wanted to share some ideas with all of you, but maybe this is not the place to Am I right or wrong? Greg VDS ps. A reflexion about Leica evolution: When Leica begun its journey in photography, with the Ur-Leica, they choose the most advanced media possible, the most promising tool for the future, the 35mm rollfilm. At that time, a lot of people were thinking this was a silly way, not useful, not serious enough for taking good photography. We know all what happend, glass plate photography died, even 120 rollfilm are no more used massively in regard to 35mm film or digital media. Don't get me wrong here, I'm really attached to silver photography, I make a lot of lab, and don't trust too much electronic. But this seems to be the future, no doubt, even if film will stay available for long, but not with its current diversity (oil painting still exists I mean, but for another purpose now than in the past, Who goes to the painter to have his portrait done now, appart some royal families in Europe or some excentric guy?) So we'll always be able to buy silver classic film and chemical, but maybe in only few places, maybe artshop supply or I don't know where, and the media will no more be used for the same purpose, it WILL be supplanted in the majorities of the application fields of photography. So, Leica should think about it, the upmost strong point of Leica is their ability to produce wonderful optical system. But they now have a past in photography, quite weighty I mean, in comparisson to their debut time in photography. Look at what they present as new bodies. They have practically no space to change, they tried with the M5, and they had their response to this essay, rejected. So now, when they do a new body, the M7, the MP, they fear to hurt so much the body practically doesn't change (again, if I had the money, those two would be part of my gear already, just to be sure you understand me). They try to make their way to digital, and I'm not talking about fuji reboxed here, but about the digital back of the R8/R9. It was somehow previsible by the way they devellop this new system (you know a lot of motordrive that need so much contacts?) So, I was just trying to imagine the digital Leica M, without this being a completely new camera, just with an M bayonet, but rather well a device every M user could add to its system and in the same league of quality. And to finish, let's play a game, read again my description of the leica M digital back, dream a little of the resolution you want, the feature you want, let's say it exists, who of you would buy this device for a typical leica price, let's say 3000euros/US$ something like that, a new body so? Answer this, to see Best Greg VDS - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Firestone" <kenf@speakeasy.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M digital back > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Grégoire Vandenschrick wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > This is only a dream: > > I was thinking about that, but lack some reflexions and details, so I post > this dream and if someone has any idea, it's welcome. > > Ok, so, I was dreaming of a full scale digital back for leica M. The CCD > would be kept in place in an interchangeable back, very similar to the > current back. > > What back? Last time I looked at my M2, there was no interchangable > back. The body is one integral piece, except for the bottom, and a > flap holding the pressure plate. This is alot different than the Nikon > F, or Olympus bodies, which have easily removable backs. > > ============================================================================ > Ken Firestone, W3CAT | For every problem there is one solution > kenf@speakeasy.net | which is simple, neat, and wrong. > ken@firestone.net | -- H. L. Mencken > ============================================================================ > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html