RE: [Leica] RE: Re: glass or plastic

["B. D. Colen" <BDColen@earthlink.net>]

> I always thought that the convenience of being able to take and
> download an
> image to a computer, subsequently adjust it and then e-mail to anywhere in
> the world in minutes would have been a benefit to photographers,
> outweighing
> some of the inconvenience??!! Kind of like when they invented the
> automobile.  Everyone that owned a horse didn't like the idea.
> Inertia...the human constant."
>
I think that when we discuss digital photography and the inevitable takeover
of digital we need to define our terms pretty carefully....I would be that
within 10 years - if not 2-5 - virtually no major daily newspaper will be
shooting film for daily assignments, and none will be doing wet printing
anymore.

On the other hand, I would go along with Jim Brick's 50 year prediction when
it comes to PJ project work, documentary photography, and fine art - film
will be around for a long time, if for no other reason than the fact that by
starting with film and with the high quality lenses used on cameras like the
Leica, N and M, digitally stored and printed images end up better than they
would if they were shot with digital equipment....

The real question I have, the real hope I have, is for products like those
mentioned earlier today, which will allow a "traditional" camera to store
take and store digital images...I'd love to be able on occassion to put a
digital card, rather than a roll of film, in my M6 or N* F and have instant
photos...and then be able to load film and shoot in my normal manner....

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ottmar-x@t-online.de [mailto:ottmar-x@t-online.de]
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 1:22 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Re: glass or plastic
>
>
> > I reviewed the Kodak DC260 for a UK publication and *HATED* the
> thing. The
> > handling was truly dreadful. Fifteen seconds from pushing the
> on button to
> > being able to take a picture (there's a software patch which improves
> > this, but my colleague found it made only a tiny difference). Neither of
> > the viewfinders is adequate. A horrible machine.
>
> I made the mistake of trying to take a portrait with one of these horrible
> things today.
> Changing the aperture takes at least 12 pushes of several cryptic buttons
> and
> then the flash didn't fire anyway. No wonder no one has bought ours.
>
> A lot of consumer digital cameras have a terribly long delay when pushing
> the
> button. We just got a shipment of cameras from Jenoptic (formerly
> Carl Zeiss
> Jena) that were so hideous in this regard that the boss packed them up and
> sent them back the same day. The Olympus cameras, which otherwise
> aren't too
> bad, sometimes suffer from this too...
>
> Keith Bingman
> Riedheim, Germany
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