Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/1/03 11:02:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, feli2@earthlink.net writes: > They > could keep the traditional > shape/size and come up with a new set of lenses. There would probably > be an enormous outcry, > but I think they would still sell a ton of them. Initially they could > release a fast 35/50/90 set. - -------------------------------- If only Leica would get rid of the gewgaws that all the outfits squeeze into a digital body -- I use one of these overloaded and overcomplex omnibuses and it give me the jimjams, as Rumpole would say. Just base an M-type digital body around a high quality CCD or CMOS sensor array, free of most of those damned buttons and menus and video and audio and preset junk, and charge no more for it than an M7, we would have a very powerful twosome. Sure, the lens set would need to be differently designed and the body might need to be a few mm's deeper, but it would be an M in more than name. If I had one of these digital M ringers, I'd probably grab an M7 by mistake and have a great time. I'd have extra batteries in my shirt pocket and need to find film out there. I'd only be doing what most folks would. Leave a digital in some drawer and use a film camera. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html