Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Glass plate, Eric - and here I always thought you were a Manly Photoman; Real photographers shoot on tin! ;-) On 9/28/06 7:44 PM, "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com> wrote: > Philip: > >> The digital DOES have a few issues >> that I don't like: warm up time, battery life, the crop factor and a small >> viewfinder. > > Those aren't drawbacks of digital. Those are drawbacks of digital P&S > cameras. > > My 5D starts instantly. The battery is good for a couple thousand raw > images (roughly 24 gig). The crop factor is 1. A 35 lens is a 35. The > viewfinder is no smaller than other viewfinders. > > I can't quite convince myself to sell my M6 even though I'm using it less > and less. It's just hard to let go. It's actually an M6TTL. Leica had > problems with some models eating batteries. So I'll wait and let somebody > else do the beta testing before I jump on the M8 ship. > > Digital is easier. Anybody can do it. Just like 35mm opened up > photography > to the masses and made everybody experts. If you're not shooting on glass > plates, are you *really* making photographs? :) > > > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information