Re: [Leica] No digital comments?

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>]

bdcolen wrote:
> 
> Boy, is the material quoted below something I did NOT - NOT - write. But
> Bob's response to what I did NOT write is something with which I
> basically agree.;-)
> 
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> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
> Afterswift@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 10:46 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] No digital comments?
> 
> In a message dated 8/17/03 3:44:27 PM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> << OTOH interminable discussions
> comparing Coolpix vs. Canon G3 vs. the Oly digital-du-jour ought to be
> taken elsewhere.  Photos made with off-topic equipment are a waste of
> bandwith unless they are related somehow to Leica use. >>
> 
> The point was made that common ground exists among all cameras, whatever
> 
> technology they utilize.
> It's that common ground I'm interested in exploring. That common
> ground's
> many facets and the way various cameras bring them out. Leica M and R
> produce the
> very highest quality 35mm images and negatives. Digitals are the most
> versatile. Everything else is comparative.
> 
> br
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Please define "common ground."  Because is sure sounds to me like it
means "they both take pictures." Which I was ready to give them from the
beginning as they are "cameras." Digital or otherwise.

I think in the beginning it was "Ooh they take digital pictures 3M's!
and they go right back in your pocket and they have a flash.!"

But now every single company has one or two of those we need to go back
to being the LUG and not Popular Photography, Petersons or Consumer reports…

I got the D100 Nikon as my big boy cameras with interchangeable lens
Digicam and so on a month ago.
I have two digital bites on the back of my neck. I was a full moon a few
nights ago. Wow cameras with built in flashes are new to me! You can be
crawling through the high grass at O. dark hundred and bam! Red eye
control on those little critters but it just makes them look all the
more delicious

So now I'm looking to get a small point and shoot and they all look so
good, all the companies versions. Olympus, Canan, Nikon, Agfa, Arguss, Casio....
Both the Leica DIGILUX and D Lux. There was lots of Leica input into
them from what i hear so as far as I go they're both Leica cameras.
Their  file sizes are a bit smaller than some of their competition but i
keep reading how there's more than sheer file size which makes a quality
images. The Leica Digital point and shoots are elegant cameras boy I'd
like to have on my person one or the other at all times. 
Yes I very much want both of them. The DIGILUX for in my hat and the D
Lux for in my sock.
At this stage in the came a little product loyalty I've got no problem with.


Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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