Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Having been Mr. Polyrical Correctness from time to time, I have to say that the remark about different people's having preferences for different color pallets sure didn't strike me as ethnic slurs, any more than saying that different peoples speak different languages, based on different language roots. BUT...PC issues aside, I will say that anyone who buys the "Leica version" of a Panasonic camera is someone who really has far too much money for their own good, and far too little common sense...UNLESS, they really believe that the warranty is worth $300 - and that Passport Warranty may actually be a good argument for buying the Leica version, given all that can go wrong with a digital camera, and how disastrously wrong it can go. (I have to say that the idea of buying a new Leica film body - particular an M - to get the warranty strikes me as pretty silly, given the dependability and longevity of the Leica film camera bodies. ;-) ) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 5:13 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1 I don't doubt Sonny for a minute. We all come from different lines of expertise. I just wanted to point out something here that might be relevant when it comes to colors and cultures (languages). Different cultures see different colors. Linguists have studied this quite a lot (it's one of the textbook cases). We don't separate colors the same way. We might have two words and see two colors: red - orange. Another culture has one single color for our two and simply doesn't see the difference where we do. There are some pretty extreme cases of this and it is not unusual at all. Since Japanese and Indoeuropean languages belong to totally different language groups, it is not a "given" that they see colors the same way and theoretically this could be reflected in the film. I seriously doubt it though since film has a global, not a local, market. So I don't see statements about Japanese and German colors as ethnical slurs. I _do_ see the horse's mouth spewing a bunch of HS though. OF COURSE Leica would say there is a difference. Next thing we know there'll be rumors about lenses that Leica rejected are being used on Panasonics. Anything to sneak in that element of doubt and get some people to pay extra for the Red dot. I'd probably look at the warranty before I'd look at the PR statements. The Passport warranty might make it worth the Red dot. Might not. Daniel On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:25 PM 2/21/2004 -0600, you wrote: > >Yeah, Allen, and maybe we're talking a bunch of PR hooie. I use the > >camera. Every day. I take pictures with it. Probably several > >thousand in the almost a year I've had it. Probably no one on the > >LUG with the possible exception of Tina has more experinence with the > >two cameras than I do. I have 2 friends with digilux 1's. It is the > >same camera. Believe it. > > You're right, Sonny. I have both and the only way I can tell a > difference is that the files from the Leica begin with L and the ones > from the Panasonic begin with P!! I did adjust the software on both > to do the least possible processing. It could be that the difference > is in the amount that the software process the files, but when that is > turned off, they are the same! > > >When you get information from the horse's mouth you better make sure > >you are at the right end. > > Amen! > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.workbookstock.com > http://www.newscom.com > http://www.americanphotojournalist.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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html