Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, I was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and happened to walk into Glazers Camera looking for used m lenses. They just happened to have gotten in a few days before that 4 RD1 bodies. Hmmm...I shot for awhile with one of them and then left my credit cards and m6 at the counter and took a walk with it. Then I downloaded the files at one of the demo workstations and had a look. My observations: none of the feared focus problems were evident. Framing with a 28 was kind of off, due it part I would guess, to my glasses. I liked the dial on the top that told me everything that I needed to know about how the camera was set. The files looked good. Seemed kind of funny and almost unnatural to have to cock the shutter on a digital. The shutter sounds a bit clunky as compared to the click of an m. It did feel really good to be using my m lenses on a digital body. Much to my surprise, I really liked the camera and went home with one. I have been shooting with it now for a few weeks and I still don't feel totally at ease with it, but I am still liking it. It does feel really good to be able to use all of my glass now. Folks comment on how expensive the RD1 body is, buy my rational is that it costs about what a new M body costs, and then throw in the money I wouldn't be loosing by selling my m stuff... I don't own a 20d so I can't comment on comparative file quality, but as compared to a D70, the epson files look a lot better to me. Maybe it's the glass and not the file, but I prefer the Epson now over the D70 (which is in the shop due to a 9 ft gravity attack). Leo On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Jeffery, > > Yes, the shutter lag with P&S makes street photography (or any > other kind of photography where you need to react quickly) very > difficult. This is one of the reasons I never considered digital > before I tried a friend's DSLR last year and realized that the > shortcomings of digital that I knew about applied mainly to P&S > cameras but had been largely solved in the world of DSLRs. > > Having said that, I do like the rangefinder style, and if Leica (or > someone else) comes up with a good digital M at a price I can > afford, I will take a very hard look at it. The current Epson > effort isn't it, however. > > Nathan > > Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> Ted and Nathan: >> I have gotten some very good images on my Panasonic Digilux II, >> but the >> shutter lag is just murder for me for anything spontaneous. Street >> Photography is daunting enough, but the feeling that my camera is not >> responding at all is really disheartening. I could always take >> Sonny's >> advice and turn much of the automation off, but having auto white >> balance and autofocus is what gives me the good results. That means I >> resort to taking the Pentax dSLR or Olympus dSLR. That means weight. >> Grrr.... >> I just received 200 rolls of Agfa from B&H. Let me put a dent in >> that, >> and I'll get back to digital in between rolls. >> Jeffery Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> http://www.400tx.com >> > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >