Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil Leeson wrote: > I think there will be a certain number of users that rather > like the idea of being able to use film for some shots and digital for > others, with one system, especially those with a load of old Leica glass > on hand! I'm not sure I understand this point of view. If I want to use a mixture of film and digital with a particular system I will want a digital body *and* a film body. The last thing I want to do is fanny around swapping out the back of one camera for another - especially when out in the field. Okay, I could dedicate a body to the back. However, if I do that I lose the potential cost savings of buying a separate digital back versus the cost of an integrated digital body (assuming that part of Leica's rationale is that the back will represent a lower cost of entry for R users into digital than would have been a digital body). Given also that Leica still seem to have problems marrying the R8/9 to a motor drive in a 100% reliable fashion, I cannot help wonder whether Leica shouldn't just accept that the modular approach isn't always the best approach and build the digital stuff into something like an R8/9 shell and call it the RD. Ian Watts - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html