Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/12

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Subject: [Leica] Another R option
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:24:42 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Mark Rabiner wrote:

>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.

The DMR's image quality isn't the issue.  Its availability is.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com




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