[Leica] Move over Q, here comes AIR

[Mark Rabiner]

Is the ability to use an exterior screen like an Ipad a new idea?
Or has tethered shooting wireless or wired been part of the whole digital
thing since day one?  (the year 2000?)
And you didn't have to sell your soul to do it.


On 7/1/15 3:07 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Neither did Mae West.

This does sound like a very viable idea. When you¹re
> carrying around a big, tremendously high-resolution touch screen (much bigger
> and better than the 1-Mpx LCDs on the backs of even the high-end ³real²
> cameras) and a whole bunch of memory in your pocket every day already, why not
> use it in conjunction with a decent-sized lens and sensor without taking on
> all the baggage of another screen and all the structure needed to support it
> and attach it to the lens/sensor and provide all the mechanical controls that
> are part of a ³real² camera? Other than doing without a viewfinder, I don¹t
> see much downside to it.

Leica should do it too, with a FF sensor, an M
> flange, and an R adapter. And a Monochrom model. Any leica glass ever made,
> through-the-lens viewfinding, immediate connectivity, in-device rudimentary
> post-processing, video for those so inclined...

‹howard


> And I find
> nothing wrong with having a bulge in my pocket.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Williams
>
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> 
> On Jul 01, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Mark
> Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> 1. Turns you into a person
> professing a serious interest in photography
>> looking for an excuse to leave
> your camera at home so you never have to put
>> down your iPhone.
>> 2. Turns
> your beloved slippery smart phone into something making a bulge in
>> your
> pocket. Won't slip in and out of your pocket so fast. But get caught on
>> the
> stitching. You might need to go out and get a Captain Kangaroo jacket.
>> 3,
> Is having a separate compact camera really such a hassle? Its not like
>> you
> are juggling the camera with its battery and sensor in the air all at
>> the
> same time. Its all fits in the camera.
>> 4. 4/3's glass or Leica glass does
> not make the tiny sensor on your smart
>> phone any bigger. It just makes it
> more ridiculous.
>> 5. Put a real camera in your other pocket.
>> 6. The
> sensors on smart phones are so small its near impossible to get the
>> spec on
> just how small they are. What is a normal lens for a smart phone
>> 4mm's? If
> they told you they'd have to kill you.
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/30/15 5:05 PM, "Dante
> Stella" <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Everything you detest about
> separate cameras (more batteries, cards, bulk)
>>> combined with everything
> you hate about taking smartphone pictures (slippery
>>> phones, clumsy
> applications). What could go wrong?!
>> 
>> Dante
> 
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