Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dominique, I like technology. I was a user of the original IBM PC. I was using the Internet long before most people had heard of it. I like gadgets and would not be caught anywhere without my PDA. But in my photography, digital only has a role to play on the output side. So far I have not seen anything on the taking side (i.e. cameras) to interest me. I like the following attributes in my cameras: - - best optics that can be had, given the format - - simple, manual operation - - ability to operate the camera with dead batteries - - and a host of other attributes. The day there is a digital camera that satisfies these conditions, I will consider one. Nathan Dominique PELLISSIER wrote: > Nathan, > > Interesting because your answer is a typical reaction facing a new technology. > > In 1925, the first Leica was gunned down by professionnals in the same > manner.A field camera was so good...and the 35mm film so bad. > > And, at the end of the fifties, Ernst Leitz III did not believe in a reflex > camera. A M with a Visoflex2 was so good... > > IMHO digital camera is the future. My next purchase will be a digital > camera, not a Leica camera. And, anticipating the end of the "classic > camera" (in 2004), I'm going to disinvest in Leica by selling slowly my gear. > > Dominique - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman