Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:47 AM 1/25/98 -0500, you wrote: >How long do you make it before we will see a leica M6 digital? Digital >cameras (less expensive ones anyway, lack manual focus, manual exposure, >bracketing, sharp lenses and more. Comments? Never. The R8 yes, but not the M6 or it's successors. The R8 would be easy to convert to digital. But I would guess a couple more years, and sensors will have resolution to match Leica lenses. they already have it, but it's too big for portability of the R8/M6. >Also, when you take a Leica photo, how do do you get it into Photoshop or >equivalent? What is the final result or customer for your photos? I use a Kodak 2035 plus scanner. Was about $8,000, but they're discontinued so they're selling right now for about $4,000 I believe. Scans at 2000 dpi are around 18+ megs. Very fast, very reliable. I didn't pay for it. (Whew!) It's not state of the art, but at 2000 dpi it makes gorgeous prints from our Kodak Dye Sublimation printer (also $8,000) up to 8x10 inches. But that's for reprints and for copy prints to make portfolio slides from. My normal final output for my employer is a CMYK Tiff image that goes into a newspaper. Or a slide/print that goes to a magazine (I do some freelancing on the side) for editing and final output. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER.