Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/4/03 6:35:18 PM, sonc@sonc.com writes: << http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1002/pana1_9.jpg >> I like the clean top panel of the Lumix, very much like a film SLR. It's the very antithesis of the Oly 5050 I use, which says digital with flags flying the moment you look at it. Also, the back panel of the Lumix is simple, almost self-explanatory. And we're slowly returning to what looks like a real zoom lens. It may even have a true filter thread. A year from now it won't be easy to tell the difference between a film and digital camera. Oly is behind the times. Its newest 5060 is contoured to digital design and sports a slower lens than the 5050. Methinks mfgs were trying to distinguish digital from film products to attract customers to something different. Common sense seems to be setting in. A digital M, it can't be. Will Leica or some other outfit make a digital body that takes Leica M lenses when sensor problems are solved? Probably. But it seems to me that such a camera would be Leica Light. Waiter, I'll have a Modela dark. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html