Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You mean back up theory? A complex subject. A relative of string theory. What's a good backup camera for an M9 for instance? Another M9 that's what. I'm in that school of thought on that. Not one which says get a cheaper deal because its only a backup. Mark -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:08:56 +0530 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information