Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Digital R
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Wed Aug 18 17:11:57 2004

Karen,

Not in Raw mode.

Regards,

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Digital R

> >I'm glad they have the ISO up to 1600 and with the 1.3x I'll have the
> >world's sharpest 130mm APO lens! Burst rate looks slow but without
> >autofocus this isn't a sports camera anyway. Although it would be 
> nice>to know how many RAW images you can shoot consecutively at 
> what rate
> >without stopping - as in working portraiture for example.
> 
> 
> I wonder if you'll have to cock the shutter manually (as in the 
> Epson 
> R-D1) or if the Digital-R back will also have a built-in motor to 
> wind the shutter mechanism. If you have to manually cock it, then 
> 2 
> fps isn't a big deal. If it's a motor drive, then 2fps will seem 
> agonizingly slow on occasion.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Karen
> -- 
> Karen Nakamura
> http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
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