Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Canon EOS for Leica-style...sorry!
From: leica@davidmorton.org
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:42:56 -0000

Mark Rabiner wrote:

"Hey I'd have no esthetic problem with that!
If you wanted to bring home a digital capture with the rest of your film
you're
not going to do it with a Leica!
And Leica optics we found out last we makes no darned digital difference!
A Nikon D1X bumping up against a Leica on the same neck makes perfect sense
to me!
They both have COMPLETELY different jobs to do.

This is not the same as having a 1.4 Summilux 35 on a Leica body around your
neck and a 1.4 canon AF EOS on an hanging off the other shoulder. To me
those
metals don't match.
But if you had two brains maybe it would be different. Two souls.  Two Gods.
Two
luminaries in the sky.
If you could switch between two operating systems with a flick of a switch
then fine."

Well on the desk in front of me are a PC running Win2k and a Mac running
OS9.2.1, the SprintScan 4000 is on the PC, the 2400ppi 5x4 scanner is on the
Mac (both have 1GB of RAM). I don't have any more problem with this than I
do switching from Nikon F3 to Leica M and back again.

Oh, and just in case, on my other desk behind me are a Mac running OS10.1
and a PC running Suse Linux 7.3. :-)

Personally I don't see what's wrong with asking certain specific questions
about other systems on this list. It seems natural that a significant
proportion of the people who use Leica M will be interested in available
light (or dark) photography. Given that interest, it's *highly* likely that
some of these people - those more interested in the end than the means -
will have cast a critical eye over Nikon's 28mm f1.4, Canon's 50mm f1 & 24mm
f1.4 and even the Olympus 21mm f2.

What's the harm in asking? Those who have something to offer can reply,
those who're not interested can pass quietly by to the next message. It's no
big deal.

- -- 
David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk

"The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.


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