[Leica] OT: A little history

[s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)]

> B. D. Colen said:
> Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: A little history
>
>
>>A 200 dpi file will produce a beautiful 13x19 - I've done it. But the
>> real issue of "obsolescence" has more to do with the compulsion of
>> people who are worried that someone, somewhere, has a bigger one than
>> they do, than it has to do with need. There are plenty of cameras out
>> there now that should keep some of us happy into the next decade.<<<,
>
> Hi  B.D.,
> yep I think that too many people are more concerned with "size" than what 
> they actually know how to make it work, no matter how small or big it is. 
> Or use the smaller camera properly regardless of size.
>
> It seems it's always....... "bigger is better, get it!" Than "how big are 
> you going to make prints and are you going to shoot professionally or just 
> family happy snaps?" Sure some cameras and users, working pro's, sport's 
> and news shooters need all they can get, but the general run of the mill 
> folks we see with digi cams today are family shooters making 4X6 prints. 
> And or on occasion a 5X7 for Aunt Maude or grandma.
>
> However they get sucked in with the hype about megapixel size and other 
> unnecessary bells & whistles they don't understand nor need the limited 
> use of the camera for the family. Heck even some pros get sucked into the 
> hype of size and other doo dads when they're not going to make anything 
> bigger than an 8X10 print.
>
> I think a short time down the road when people begin to get past the 
> "number things, bigger is always better" maybe this digital frenzy might 
> slow a bit and we'll begin to see better photography produced. Or 
> certainly as good as what shooters were producing with film cameras. As I 
> have this thing about digital in that it doesn't necessarily make for 
> better photographs, it just allows you to see the screw-ups quicker! ;-)
>
> If leica were to come out with a digital camera as close to the size of an 
> M body as possible and capable of making use of the M lenses for their 
> full image size or nearly so. We "might" see a solid move away from those 
> big honking digi cameras of today. Obviously providing the new Leica digi 
> isn't at a completely prohibitive price.  However, I find the 20D a very 
> nice fit in the hand as I know there are others of similar size producing 
> equal or better capture at an acceptable price for many folks. In 
> particular R leica users who are finding their R glass works extremely 
> well with this new machine. Or other models like it.
>
> However, until the hype of size and digital rhetoric slows it's going to 
> be a constant ... big is better, faster is better and every other reason 
> one should change simply for the sake of change and nothing to do with 
> better quality of picture content.
>
> ted
Indeed you just made a good argument for the R digital back.
Sure there,s a 16mp SLR but which one will produce the nicest files is still 
unknown.
Counting off the days to see for myself what tricks they have in store for 
us.
best,simon