Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, We are talking about a back up and not a primary camera body. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > The best time to get a cutting edge piece of digital technology is always > next year. The problem comes when know you are heading out on that weekend > to get some maybe key shots and you want them to come out as well as > possible and be something resembling up to date technology wise. ? And this > weekend is not next year. Definite jumps are made in digital camera > technology in very few years. ?The level moves up. Lots of people buy these > things it behooves the people that make them to try to be on the cutting > edge hopefully ahead of their competition. These people are not making any > money sitting on thier hands. And that's is the point. A guy cant be > faulted > sitting on his either. > The Leica Digital Modul R started to ship ?June 2005 that's six years ago. > A > half dozen years. ?It came with a SanDisk 256MB Ultra II card . ? I think > that's enough time for the level of digital technology to reinvent itself a > couple of times at least. And it was a 1.37x crop circle. > Many of us including me were still shooting with a D100 in June 2005. At > the > very end of the year the D200 came out I experienced a huge leap. Now I'd > consider that camera to be a near paperweight. I'm sure I could sell it for > 50 bucks but I'd have to live with myself. The D700 is much more a huge > leap > than the past one for me by a mile it came out in 2008 and put Nikon back > in > business with Canon as it had fallen far behind. > I don't think a guy can be faulted for wanting to be more up to date in > what's going on digitally results wise and everything else wise. > Just because something is made in Denmark does not mean its technologically > unstuck in time. > > Mark > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:05:22 +0530 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option >> >> When the DMR packs it up. It cannot take more than a couple of weeks >> for the conversion, can it? In that period if you want a camera >> urgently, hire it, if necessary with lenses for the duration of the >> job. Why take a decision on a technology which is undergoing profound >> changes every year before you absolutely need to? Who knows, even >> Leica might have come out with their promised solution by then. >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Doug Herr >> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >>> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >>> >>>> In that case my advice to you would be to wait till you need a >>>> replacement >>> >>> Would be nice if I could predict when that would be. >>> >>> Doug Herr >>> Birdman of Sacramento >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >