Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/26
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Ian, you've just twigged a thought. Given that the digi 'back' will
come in two parts, it may be that it will provide the functions of a
motor drive for film if one takes off the digital swinging back and
slaps on the film back. Then, when I'm out hiking to shoot falcons, I
could take the one body, the one drive and two swinging backs, for film
and digital. And have motor drive with both. Thoughts?
Rick.
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Ian Watts wrote:
> 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
>
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