Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I suspect that the M10 which you're going to love using and be a boom to your work is going to have a few buttons on it which you're not going to bother pressing. Just like a Betamax. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:55:06 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel > > If a Leica M ever has live view or video, it will not be an M that I want. > Bells and whistles that are not needed for a digital rangefinder. > > Tina > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > >> And freaking video in the same breath! >> I used live view on my DSLR extensively for landscapes. It was wonderful! >> Throw on a tilt/shift lens, turn on live view that shows what you are >> really getting when you stop down, watch it with a Hoodman loupe as you >> fiddle with tilt and aperture until it is sharp as a tack and BOOM, what >> you see is what you got! Loved it. >> But not for my Leica. Since no tilt shift, all I need is an accurate hyper >> focal scale and I'm there. And as for movies?? Well I'll leave that to >> others to decide... >> Sent from my living room where it's 100deg outside, 80 degrees inside, but >> wrapped in a perpetual ice wrap which makes it like Heaven!! >> Bob >> >> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com >>> wrote: >> >>> I don't understand this focus on Live View. That's a key advantage with >>> CMOS >>> in an M10? I'd call it a detriment not an asset! Leica's going to sell >> more >>> cameras because of this? Maybe not to the right people. I'm just not >>> looking >>> forward to seeing people holding eight thousand dollar M10's at full arms >>> lengh in front of them as they take snap shots in Times Square. From an >>> image standpoint to me that just looks bad. >>> A kind of thing getting Barnack rolling over in his grave. >>> On my camera a D700 DSLR the Live View option slows down the operation of >>> the camera is widely ignored by me and its other owners after trying it >> for >>> a minute. >>> I just give the mass public credit for knowing that when you buy a hand >>> constructed German camera for thousands of dollars Its for putting up to >>> your face not holding out like an offering like using a cell phone camera >>> or >>> cheap point and shoot. I don't see people with big fat DSLR's which have >>> now >>> the option now using it that way. >>> Perhaps Leica should give its buyers a German chocolate bar to every >>> customer who allows them to disable that feature. Perhaps place a little >>> leaflet in the box for the unboxing where they can read the history of >> the >>> Leica M for mechanical rangefinder mechanism working with triangulation >> to >>> give you a focus many times more accurate than a groundglass if there is >>> one. >>> It should not be circumvented so lightly. >>> Either is the viewfinder mechanism with its automatic frame lines. >>> >>> >>> - - from my iRabs. >>> Mark Rabiner >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>> >>> >>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:16:36 -0700 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel >>>> >>>> Thanks for sharing. It's confirming what we know.... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM, John McMaster <john at >>>> chiaroscuro.co.nz >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> http://the.me/interview-with-stefan-daniel-leica-director-product-management >>>>> -next-target-non-leica-users/ >>>>> >>>>> john >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Bob Adler >> http://www.rgaphoto.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information