Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, thank goodness! About you, not the M246 file problems. I am a B&W kind of guy, though as a retiree I?m not sure I could have justified the un-budgeted expense. Serendipitously, my son just informed me that the last print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which I impulsively bought a set of a couple of years ago, now sells on the secondary market, like Amazon and eBay, to collectors for 5-6 times what it cost new?just about the price of the M246! If I could sell mine for that, it would be an un-budgeted windfall There?s a nice symmetry there? ?howard > On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:01 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Phenomenal low-light performance at ISO 6400?much better than the MM and > just blows away the M240. As he points out, it could be a real boon for > f/16, 1/2000-and-be-there daytime street photography as well as available > dark. > > And BTW, where?s Hoppy been recently? My LUG mail has nothing from him in > the last month. Did I miss something in one or another of my weeks away > from > keyboard? > > ?howard > > Hi Howard, still alive and kicking here in Aus. I just turned off my > LUG mail for a spell. Sort of like Facebook as a timesuck ;-) I take a > peek at the LUG archives from time to time in case I missed some news > from friends or whatever. > The initial reports on that new Monochrom certainly sound impressive > for BW kind of guys. I need my colour personally!I did read from Jono > Slack I think that the new DNG files from the M246 result in major > problems in some of the Mac applications currently. Photo drives me > crazy anyway! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information