Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It would be cool if Nikon's F6 was made with a digital back in mind like the Leica R8/9 but my hunch is that is not the case. In the Nikon system there are plenty of digital bodies to choose from for Nikon glass. It would have been cool for Nikon to have followed Leica's lead or innovation on this end. But Leica itself is coming out with a digital body. You've got all these lenses. Perhaps it's glass that is your major investment.... And you put it on any of a number of types of bodies. 1. Flagship film. 2. Digital regular DSLR 2a. Digital faster DSLR for sports with smaller files. (d2h) 3. Cheap knockabout film SLR cameras. 4. Ditto digital. 5. all or none of the above A flagship digital is a concept which I don't think has quite hit yet. Perhaps this will be Leicas digital body soon to be. A pie in the sky affair appealing to the refined bottomless pocketed nietzsche within the nietzsche market. Perhaps Nikon will come out with a F6D. Instead of a D something digital. The D cameras becoming Nikkormat's or FM's by default. A thought in passing is that the coming F6 will not have interchangeable finders. The main feather which has for countless decades distinguished both the Nikon and canon flagship F cameras. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/