Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]and to add to what BD has said - digital cameras are essentially computers and we of course expect to trade up every 18-36 months. On the other hand much of this trading up has to do with improved operating systems or the incompatibility of some software. In this regard digital cameras are better - your present system should last for years unless your needs Photographically change. Decide how many megapixels you need, stake your ground and start picture taking. ernie On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Douglas Herr wrote: > bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> The oft repeated canard that digital forces one to 'trade up' every >> 12-18 months is pretty hilarious when read so often on a list which is >> probably dominated by people who are using film equipment that is >> anywhere from 30-60 years old, including lenses which "glow" - meaning >> they produce soft, flare prone images and often suffer from other >> optical aberrations. If one can comfortably use a Leica lens >> manufactured in, say, 1955, a Leica lens which may not have even then >> been up to the standards being set by Zeiss and Nikon, and a lens >> which >> is now a Coke-bottle-bottom when compared to the latest Leica lenses, >> why can't one buy a 5 mgp digital camera and be happy with it for the >> next five to 10 years? > > I'm not sure my first resopnse got through so I'll try again... > > Film cameras are upgraded each time we buy a new emulsion. Your > analogy would be more accurate if the collective 'we' were using old > films in our old cameras. I certainly wouldn't be satisfied if I were > still using Kodachrome X or High Speed Ektachrome from the early > 1970s, though at the time they were very satisfactory films. My > 30-year-old cameras are still quite usable and produce very > satisfactory results with modern films. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html