Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reading all the gripes about the Leica products of the last ten or so years makes me glad I bought my black M4 in 1969. Too bad failing eyesight means it will be for sale. Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: On 3/17/07 1:30 PM, "grduprey@mchsi.com" typed: > I don't know how cramped the M8 is for space, but that may have been a > reason > for using the SD cards, but since the DMR uses them also, they probably > decide > to use it for that reason. Either way I have no problem with the SD cards. > My Nikon D200 uses the CF cards, but my wifes Nikon Coolpix uses the SD > cards. > Go figure...even with an camera brand they change. > > Gene > I believe its not a BRAND thing but a MARKET thing. And for the DMR digital back for the R series having the card be an SD card is just plain odd. SD stands for MINICAM. Like putting those little wheels all the cars have now on your new MASERATI. I'm thinking an R8 or R9 with DMR weights more Or close as a Hasselblad HC3 that's just my guess. http://www.hasselblad.com/products/h-system.aspx You'd find SD's in the top all in one gadget cameras and cheap DSLRs marketed for beginners but not the top line or even mid line stuff at all. I think its an image thing. Not the photographic image of course no one cares about that but the photographers image of does his Tilley hat match his leatherette covering on his gear; or high heels. SD goes along usually with the dreaded heartbreak known to the afflicted as SMALL SENSOR SIZE SSS 4/3s or smaller. Or super cheap plastic starter DSLRs. I think the Leica marketing people should have gone in there and kicked ass and gotten them to use a regular big boy CF card. What are marketing people FOR anyway?! They design cameras that's what! I guess since they figured they were not going to go with 24x36 frame then its anything goes with this digital junk. But I think its money we don't know about. Marketing another thing we have to buy. Burgeoning technology. Those CF cards don't all break real fast, most of them just work and work. Are not disposable enough. So we just have to make them set themselves up with multiple Evolving formats. MEF CF standing for Cash Flow Corn Flakes Carbon Fiber Complement Fixation Carrier Frequency (ask Kenneth) Collaborative Filtering Childfree Charcoal Filter Cadillac Fairview Hundred Feet Cahiers Francais Coin First Payphone Cluster Foulup (polite form; military slang) And now that I'm a roll here SD standing for Standard Deviation Scooby-Doo Same Difference social drinker Senior Discount Self-Destruct Software Documentation Snoop Dogg (who gets called Scooby a lot ask him) Sweet Dreams Snow Day Safe Driver Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins album) Sample Duplicate Significantly Different These are all good. But Significantly Different being the opposite of Same Difference so you have to be careful of context in your prescribed field of reference. These are not "words of art" folks. So do you want a Cluster Foulup (polite form) Card for your big boy pro camera? or Self-Destruct card for your Minicam? I'm being negative. I think but the DMR and the M8 are for sure big boy (or girl) cameras. And deserve BB or BG batteries and Cards and other decisive accessories. DMR of course standing for Deuteron Magnetic Resonance Distributed Mesh Restoration Desktop Maintenance Required Dual Modular Redundancy (another one for Kenneth) None of these are good. BB Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --------------------------------- Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out.