Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi B.D., I see your point. But I guess the mindset with a digital camera is that such manual advancing should not be necessary. In my own shooting I try to think about each picture, even if it is with Canon. During the full day at Photokina I shot around 120 frames--I do not think it would have been much less if I had been shooting film. Anyway, the issue with the advance lever is a minor quibble about what is overall an excellent--if a bit pricey--camera. Certainly they have set a high bar for the digital M. Nathan B. D. Colen wrote: > I haven't yet handled an RD1, Nathan, but I find the objection to the > shutter advance interesting. Because I would think that requiring this > pause, if you will, brings the digital shooting experience that much > closer to the film RF experience - and that can only be positive, no? > Doesn't it force you to think a bit more about each frame, just as > shooting film with an M - v. shooting film with a motor driven SLR - > forces you to do? > Granted, it's "fake" in a way, but it strikes me in theory as one of the > rare times when "fake" may be good. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Nathan Wajsman > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 1:40 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Photokina _ The lens on Tom's RD1 > > > Hi Howard, > > Lucien already answered the question about the lens. I did try Tom's RD1 > > and liked it a lot. It felt heavy and substantial, and the viewfinder is > > excellent. Even if it were a film body, I would consider it the most > solidly built of the CV cameras. As a digital body, it must be giving a > lot of folks in Solms grey hair. > > The one thing I did not like is the need to "advance" the shutter with > what used to be the film advance lever. I realize that they did it to > keep the form factor as close as possible to a film camera, but frankly > I could have done without it. To me, this kind of pretending that the > camera is something it is not constitutes a pure marketing gimmick > without any value. A couple of times I pressed the shutter release and > nothing happened because I had forgotten to "advance". > > Nathan > > Howard Cummer wrote: > > >>Hi Nathan, >>Enjoy your pictures and commentary as always. Can you please tell me >>what Leica lens Tom is using on his RD1 in picture 40alt1? Did you try > > >>Tom's RD1? Impressions?? >>Thanks >>Howard >>On Monday, Oct 4, 2004, at 05:27 Asia/Hong_Kong, >>lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: >> >> >>>Message: 14 >>>Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:32:08 +0200 >>>From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> >>>Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 40 and more: Photokina 2004 >>>To: LEG <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group >>><lug@leica-users.org> >>>Message-ID: <416053B8.1090706@planet.nl> >>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >>> >>>This week's PAW could only be one thing: the day I spent at Photokina > > >>>yesterday. Going to Photokina is a fixture of my life in the >>>even-numbered years. The excuse is to go and see all the new goodies, > > >>>but in reality the main reason I go is to meet with friends from the >>>LUG/LEG and from the Viewfinders photo club in Brussels. So from >>>yesterday's excursion, I have selected a few images for the PAW. I >>>have also put up a larger (31 images) Photokina gallery at: >>>http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexkina.html >>> >>>And here is Tom, pronouncing on some undoubtedly weighty subject: >>>http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_40alt1.jpg >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com