Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If anything, Erwin was a believer in optical excellence.? Np tricks, no excuses.? Not GOOD engineering and production.? Rather, GREAT engineering and production. he whole theory of COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY would be? (?) anathema to him.? It is NOT about optical excellence, it is about learning to correct that lack of excellence with digital manipulation.? IOW, let the costly optical components go down in COST, measure what you got, then figure how to digitally correct them. It makes sense.... in a away..... The repetitive costs of expensive optical and mechanical components goes down, and the one time only costs of figuring out a digital correction works "as well" as if you did it right in the first place. Costs Down = More Profit at the same selling point.? ( I think we can all agree that Leica keeps the same selling point: High) The Huawei and Panasonic connection, etc. is all about computational photography.? It was getting popular in the interviews with Leica personnel in the 2018-2019 time period. It is still popular in the interviews.? The anti-keystoning software in the M10 recent firmware release is a perfect example and product of this type of thinking.... My guess is that this contributed to his frustration with Leica.... Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com On 3/24/2021 10:22 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > http://joerivanderkloet.com/erwin-puts-says-bye-bye-leica/ > > With a statement from EP saying what annoyed him about > Leica. > > Understandable, too. > Cheers > Douglas