[Leica] R9 with digital back pix

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Jealousy is such a unpleasant thing to witness.

:-)


B. D. Colen wrote:

> Okay - Doug, and all you AreAteAFiles out there - I sincerely appologize
> for making fun of your homely honey. Honest. I should have left well
> enough alone. :-)
> 
> As to my thoughts about the E-1 before one was given to me..:-)...It
> really didn't strike me one way or another, other than my noting that
> it's more compact than its steroidal brethren.
> 
> Seriously though? I am struck by the fact that the R8/9Digenheimer has
> so many sharp edges - there doesn't seem to have been much of an attempt
> made to give it the appearance of a single, smooth unit. Obviously that
> has no bearing on performance - which I'm sure will be outstanding for a
> $7,000 manual focus only, less-than-full-frame digital SLR. ;-)
> 
> Okay, okay - It's the damn drugs again...What's that Motown line?
> 
> "I can't help myself..."
> 
> And seriously - I do appologize. My buddy Buzz even called me, piercing
> my drug-induced fog to ask if I'd lost my mind...
> "What?" I shouted into the phone, "I can't hear you...I'm down on the
> floor looking for my mind."
> 
> B. D.
> (With appologies in advance to Mark Rabiner for ripping off his standup
> routine. :-) )
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Doug Herr
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:14 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] R9 with digital back pix
> 
> 
> on 9/20/04 11:33 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>Damn thing looks like a three story apartment building designed by a 
>>committee of blind architechts, and constructed out of packing crates.
> 
> 
>>Enjoy! ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>Ted Grant wrote:
>>>
>>>And those who'll just sh............t all over it will do so 
>>>immediately like they did when the R8 was first shown. But hand them 
>>>one for free and they'd be all smiles and praise! :-)
>>>
>>>ted
>>
> 
> So B. D., what did you think of the E-1's appearance before it was
> handed to you :-)  <- note smiley
> 
> I was put off by the R8's appearance initially but the handling, the
> viewfinder and the output won me over.  I think it best to judge the R
> digital back by what it can do, which is yet to be determined.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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