Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's to wonder, Emanuel. Like it or not, the world of photography and photographic equipment has changed. While everything was film based, and still primarily manually oriented, it was fine for Leica to talk about ancient arts, superior build quality, and then Zen of minimalism. But as autofocus cameras -with full manual function - came to dominate the photojournalism world in which Leica used to be a real player, Solms fell further and further behind. And now, like it or not, film and film cameras are becoming anachronisms. Call it what ever you want to, but digital is here, and it is dominating photography, and sooner rather than later it will take over photography entirely. A company that is "delightfully primitive" simply will not survive in the 21st century, as much as some would wish it to. As to the delays having to do with Solms wanting the digital back to be really, really good...The problem is that the longer it's delayed, the more true believers like Ted are likely to throw up their hands in frustration and go buy an excellent digital SLR for less than a third the cost of the back, and the more likely it is that the back will be further and further behind in the mgp race by the time it finally appears. To say nothing of the pricing and the steep decline of the dollar against the Euro. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel Lowi Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:19 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Re: Digital Module R sensor vs EOS 1D IIS Rick Dykstra wrote: > I really want it to be good. Really, really good. So > that I don't have reservations about buying one. No doubt the gnomes of Solms have precisely that same fearful desire, hence the delays until they're sure they've got it really, really good enough for a faithful customer like you, Rick. Ted Grant wrote: > or are flailing around lost in a world of yesterday > while the space age speed of other companies > past them by completely. Yes, but is that their fault, or the fault of the opinion-spinners in this world of today who have identified space age speeds as a necessary positive? I wonder... Particularly as some of the LUG is now engaged in a discussion of the pleasures of the AC Cobra, a vehicle quite delightfully primitive by the standards of today's supercars. Emanuel Lowi Montreal ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information