Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: John Kahrs [mailto:kahrs@pixar.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:05 PM To: SLRMAN@topica.com Subject: [SLRMan] "new" digital camera Someone posted on the RF list about Lieca and Matsushita jointly building digital cameras. With some a few clicks, I found these: http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/presse/data/02224/index_e.html <http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/presse/data/02224/index_e.html> http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en010917-4/en01 0917-4.html <http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en010917-4/en0 10917-4.html> Big deal, I say. They look just like any other fixed-lens deck-of-cards silver box proliferating on the shelves of Best Buy, and but they sure don't look like they take interchangeable lenses. What the hell? When is someone going to step up and build a digital body for less than 2 grand that accepts interchangeable lenses? So, Nikon, Pentax, Leica, Olympus, Canon, etc., here's an idea: How about building a digital body that looks like a classic SLR that takes your own brand of classic lenses? Sure, you don't get the swipe on selling all that new glass, but how many people out there are bemoaning buying a digital camera because they've already invested in a Domke bag full of great classic lenses? I'd buy one in a second. Classic Nikkor 105/2.5 potraits with the gorgeous depth of field on a digital body? Awesome, I say. Or how about this: a digital back for a camera like an FM2n, or a digital back for the FM3A? I don't care if it's a little bulkier. Hell, I'll even buy the new custom case that's designed to go with it. If they were really smart, they'd build a "dark slide" into it so after the lenses were on and the camera was sealed up again, you could reveal the pristine field of clean ccd's, and it would stay that way. Last idea: a cartridge with a super thin CCD that hangs off it and sits right in the film plane. I bet voigtlander will end up beating everyone by making a digital body for their new/old lenses. (Someone on one of these lists mentioned the reason most of these ideas aren't feasable yet: the problem of manufacturing CCD's of decent resolution a 24X36mm. But still. . . I love old cameras, and I love film, but I too am seduced by the ability to send jpegs around the web. Too bad they mostly still stink compared to some of the worst SLR film images.) jk - -- John Kahrs kahrs@pixar.com 510.752.3486 ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrB3D.bVU8j9 <http://topica.com/u/?bUrB3D.bVU8j9> Or send an email To: SLRMAN-unsubscribe@topica.com This email was sent to: albert.wang@ibx.com T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register <http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register> ==^================================================================ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html