Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aside from the sensor, I just draw a BIG LINE between cameras with good visual focus confirmation and all the other cameras with poor visual focus confirmation - whether EVF, or all the DSLR's with poor screens and so on. To me it's a question of knowing the exact focus point (RF) or *seeing* what is in focus (a good SLR with DOF preview). My bro' opted for a nice Fuji digicam. He took a bunch of pics of my new son and brought them to me - 75% or so were out of focus, but it wasn't something he could *see* in the viewfinder or on the little LCD - and he's taken photo classes, had his own wet darkroom for some time, etc. Scott Lottermoser George wrote: > Hi Gary, > > How is it "meaningful" to compare a high end, extremely well built, > manual, precision range finder camera and its set of equally high > quality cammed lenses to automatic, essentially throw-away cameras > other than to say that they both take 35mm film and/or have digital > chips in them and/or will allow the making of a photograph? I don't > dispute that folks make comparisons. However, in my mind, that does > not make such comparisons "meaningful." I already have a pretty good > idea that any box with a hole in it will allow the exposing of film > and the formation of an image; and that autofocus, autoexposure, auto > film advance cameras are available within a price range of $20 - > $10,000. > > Of course the simplicity, precision, accuracy, build, and image > quality of a number of fine RF cameras can certainly be meaningfully > compared. But comparing a top shelf RF to a P&S has about as much > meaning as comparing a 35mm camera to a 4x5 camera. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Gary Todoroff wrote: > >> George - the LUG has meaningfully compared M's to Yaschica T's, >> Ricohs, and other point and shoots. Meaningless comparison? I've >> compared my Leica M's to every other camera I've ever owned. Usually >> the Leica comes out ahead. But the Olympus E-330, which can also be >> used as a P&S, represents an advance in photography that eclipses >> almost anything the M can do, digital or not. I am extremely >> disappointed in Leica's approach to digital. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)