Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree... a digital Leica camera must be simple and allow you to control exposure totally... there would be a very good pixel element array say like 15 megapixel-20 megapixel which can prove that Leica lenses are worth it. Plus the Leica camera should have interchangeable lens. I don't like fixed zoom lens very much... Also the Leica camera would need like a 1 Gb hard drive to store some solid photographs... Finally most important is that the Leica digital camera should allow you have to have manual focusing!!! Seriously... Alfie - -----Original Message----- From: Afterswift@aol.com [mailto:Afterswift@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:14 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Cc: speidels@lanecc.edu Subject: [Leica] A Leica DG 1 In a message dated 10/18/01 12:14:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes: > A digital "M" would surely come from that same mind-set. No "built-in" sepia > toning and stuff, no "on board" DSP. No zillion exposure modes. No changes > in the focusing mechanism. Just a shift in sensor and the ability to slot in > a memory card or (as important) a microdrive and a way to look at the image > you've recorded and a FireWire connector to get data out of the camera. - -------------------------------------------------- A Leica digital wouldn't be an M6. It would be a DG 1; that is, a manual digital in which film would be replaced by a 24x36 pixel element array. It wouldn't be AF, would use standard Leica lenses. It would have a high resolution screen on the back, and would be housed in a metal body. And it would recycle instantly. As fast as film is handled in the M6. Of course, that would be my idea of a true digital Leica. Which I would use seldom, I might add. Without a negative, it isn't true photography as far as I'm concerned. Film is the RESET button of photography. Digital can never have such a function. Burning an image into a CD isn't equivalent to a negative because the inevitable artifacts of the digital process must inherently intrude. A digital image is always too good to be true. And the public will understand that caveat. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This E-Mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this communication in error, please do not distribute it. Please notify the sender by E-Mail at the address shown and delete the original message. Thank you for your compliance. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html