Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I am to judge by what Doug shows us week in and week out, the DMR in 2011 produces results superior to anything Nikon and Canon can come up with, as long as we are in lowish ISO situations. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jun 12, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Mark Rabiner 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 >