Back to Film [was Re: [Leica] Nocti-luck]

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Sonny and Dick:  Verrrry interesting.

Almost all non-SLR digitals have the shutter lag problem.  Sometimes it's 
OK if you prefocus.  But sometimes not.

But if you want to get past the "new camera every six months" syndrome, you 
could have gotten an Olympus E-1 like I did.  Then you can sit in utter 
frustration and the promised fast normal prime doesn't materialize, and a 
new pro-quality body is only a vaporous hint after two years.  :-)

I've been staying with film for the important stuff, and daring to 
experiment in all sorts of ways with the digital. The Leica is fast.  The 
Leica does what I tell it to.

But Sonny, I remember the *ist D and DS having very usable focusing 
screens, for a DSLR.  Couldn't you have taken your supermarket shot by 
prefocusing the *ist on manual, or is the lag that significant even so?

--Peter

At 05:30 PM 10/11/2005 -0700, Sonny wrote:
> >One of  the reasons
> >I am going back to film is that the camera will shoot when I want 
> it  to, not
> >after it calculates all the stuff in the histogram, minus the phase of  
> >the
> >moon.
> >
>
>My Digilux 2 spends most of its time in the bag now for just this
>reason.  I got really tired of trying to figure out ways to work
>around the delays.  Having to deal with the noise at high ISO, was
>another big issue.
>
>There's another reason to stay with film, too - at least for me.  The
>digital camera market is still far too unstable to allow reasonable
>buying decisions to be made.  We're still in the Wild West of camera
>development.
>
>A couple of months ago I was almost ready to plunk down real money
>for either a *istDS (when I was feeling frugal) or a Canon 20D (when
>I felt richer).  Just as I was ready to make a decision, up comes the
>preliminary announcement of first the *istDL, then the Canon 5D.
>"Uh, oh," I say to myself, "better wait."