Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] No digital comments?
From: Aquiles Almansi <aalmansi@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:39:24 -0700 (PDT)

I don't quite understand why all digicams are supposed
to be the same...

Is it because they use commodity-like CCDs (as all
- -but Apple- PCs us Intel or AMD chips)?

If that's the reason, then all film-based cameras are
alike: my M6 uses the same film my wife's EOS uses...

I think cameras (film or digital) are not commodities
for a variety of reasons, their lenses being one of
the most important. Leica and Panasonic use Leica
glass, Nikon, Canon, Olympus et al don't.
- --- Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/13/03 9:41:41 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, sonc@sonc.com 
> writes:
> 
> > This is, indeed, the Leica list, as you pointed
> out, and the 5050 is no
> >  Leica.
> 
> Sonny,
> 
> Who knows? Maybe it is. I'm ambivalent about the
> 5050 and its confreres 
> because I'm ambivalent about digital in general at
> this point in its development. 
> I'm not ambivalent about the Leica M or R. 
> 
> I'll send you a few 5050 shots offlist from time to
> time. I don't know what 
> they'll prove. The only way someone can convince me
> that the Digilux or its 
> double, the LC-5, is any different from the 5050 is
> to send me one of those 
> cameras as a loner for me to use for a couple of
> weeks. I certainly won't buy one 
> of them to prove that the 5050 isn't their equal.
> Why pay twice for the same 
> camera?
> 
> br 
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