[Leica] decline in LUG membership

[raikorho at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)]

Hi all,
after a lengthy absence I decided to join LUG again.
And I have also found digital photography in the meantime.
OK, big sensor is better and good lenses are better than not-so-good ones
but it depends very much on what do you intend to do with the images.
Well, last week we had a music festival here in Uusikaupunki, Finland where
I live - and they asked me to take some pictures of the events. Just the
thing for my M6, the concerts - but I took along my Pentax Optio S4 as well.
And one day they needed pictures of a Swedish clarinet player (Martin Fr?st,
if anybody is interested) for an interview in the regional paper - and they
needed the pictures immediately. So I took the tiny Optio and shot about 30
images of the guy. The camera produces 4 Mb images packed into about 2.7 Mb
which supposedly are good for A4 size print - and an image on that size was
in the next day?s paper.
Leica pictures received good feedback but so did the digital images. So do
not underestimate the digital compacts. It is nice to have the equivalent of
35 to 105 mm focal lengths in your shirt pocket.
But I am not going to give up my Leica equipment.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie@btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] decline in LUG membership


> Hi Dan.
> The digital rebel will be MUCH better than the Pro1
> because it has a much bigger better sensor. The same
> difference as 35mm to MF IMHO. Despite what is  said
> about digital lenses the Canon EOS  lenses I have used
> have all worked well with digital. Obviously zoom
> lenses will be inferior to primes.
> cheers
> Frank
>
> --- Dan Post <dpost@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > Apropos the digital rebel- I considered the talk
> > that lenses for digital
> > should be designed for digital sensors, and thought
> > seriously about the
> > Canon Powershot Pro1- with 8 megapixels and a 7X
> > zoom lens designed around
> > the camera, it seems that it would cover just about
> > all the shots I'd want
> > to take. Same price as the Digital Rebel, but with a
> > lot more resolution,
> > and I would assume that their firmware is up to
> > snuff, as well.
> > Has anyone used this camera? Any comments on it- And
> > to stay on topic, even
> > if I get a digital camera, they are going to have to
> > pry my beloved IIIf
> > from my cold dead fingers... on second thought, I
> > might even take it with
> > me! :o)~
> > Dan (Please! Just one more, and I'll be done!)Post
> >
> >
>