Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My motto and what I've learned in life is this: It's always what you don't think! (and you can quote me on that one) The button you think you'll never press might turn out to be your favorite button. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:51:49 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information