[Leica] M7 Digital (real one!! :-) ) in LFI

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (TED GRANT)]

Hi B.D.,

The viewing screen is a distraction for anyone who's a serious shooter if you stop and look at the damn thing eveytime one makes an exposure. it's OK for the amateur player but it's nothing more than a waste of time to shoot & look. 

Yep it's fun at the first few times playing, but when one get's serious as though using a film camera to hell with lookin at the screen every frame.

What I do with the new Digilux 2 is I rarely look once I'm on a roll in the same manner if film and eventually when there's a break I take a very quick look, dump the junk and get back to shooting as it should be.

If one uses it as an edit function to make more room that's fine but you don't do it after each frame other wise you waste an incredible amount of time.

As for a new M7 type digital? Well OK sometime in this century when it's a reality we'll dicuss it, other wise all comments are null and void until we all on the LUG have one in hand and have made it work.
ted

----- Original 
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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:34 am
Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 Digital (real one!!  :-)  ) in LFI

> Well, Steve's friend B. D. isn't going to say anything cynical.
> But....:-)...I will say that the preview function strikes me as a bit,
> well, silly on a serious digital camera - which this would be. Don't
> forget we're talking manual focus, where the p&ses are all auto focus
> with manual override...Trying to seriously focus the image on the 
> littlet.v. screen would be a bit nuts. I find with the DSLR's I 
> don't in
> anyway miss having the t.v. screen function of the p&ses, and can't 
> seewhy Leica would waste it's time to incorporate this into a 
> digital M. If
> you're doing studio, portrait, etc. work, you can take the shot and
> preview it...if you're doing photojournalism, street shooting etc., 
> youdon't want to waste the time screwing around. At least that's my 
> take on
> it...
> 
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> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Steve Barbour
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:45 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] M7 Digital (real one!! :-) ) in LFI
> 
> 
> Hi Karen.... exciting, yes ...but it seems a bit 
> early to be talking details.... I know I sound 
> like my friend BD, but he is usually right on the 
> button....... are you sure they are not just 
> putting it out there   ?.... ie running it up the 
> flagpole, to see if anyone will salute....just to 
> get their toe in the door?
> 
> It seems not likely that  right now they have much 
> more than their toe in the door....
> 
> or maybe it is an April fool's joke....
> 
> Hmmmmm....
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> Karen Nakamura wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you saying that it looks like an M without the advance 
> lever? I 
> >> somehow have a gut feeling that the traditional M shutter is 
> going to
> 
> >> go bye, b
ye and be replaced by something smaller.... I always 
> >> wondered how they intended to fit the CCD, electronics and a 
> screen 
> >> on the back of the camera without adding an unsightly hump...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, no wind lever, so my guess is the shutter is either an
> > electromagnetic vertical travel bladed shutter  or more likely, a
> purely 
> > electronic shutter (such as in most digital P&S cameras). The
> advantage 
> > of the latter is live preview, which the R-D1 does not have.
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
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