Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital results
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:36:39 -0500
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Wash out you mouth BD!

My black R8 is the best looking, most handsome, and yes, most BEAUTIFUL
camera in the world... except for my 11x14 Korona of course.

- -- 

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



bdcolen wrote:
> 
> Don't bet on getting it "very cheap in a year's time." One, I'm going
> to
> guess that you aren't going to see any major jumps in resolution from
> the 11-14 meg range for a while - although I could, of course, be
> wrong;
> and, two, with cameras at the 11-14 meg range, most photographers will
> not feel the need to immediately trade in their equipment to jump to
> the
> next level - at least not for resolution, which at the present high
> end
> exceeds the needs of people shooting for newspapers, magazines, and
> most
> print uses. Obviously, if there are vast improvements in color
> rendition, low light sensitivity, etc., and number of high resolution
> frames that can be shot per second, that could effect things. But I
> suspect the days of regular annual or 18 month trade-ins may be coming
> to an end.
> 
> And "ugly?" Who cares. The R8 is uuuuuuugly, but its fans love it -
> and
> even think it's beautiful. ;-) The question is not, "what does it look
> like?" The question is, "what do the images it produces look like?" At
> least I thought that was what photography was all about. :-)
> 
> B. D.
>
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