[Leica] Not pretending

[corkflor at iol.ie (Alex Hurst)]

Ruben wrote:

>I am totally with Nathan on this one - Using Leica glass is fine on 
>what ever media it is recorded - the camera houses of Leica - how 
>lovely they may be - are just film and lens holders - and it is none 
>on this lists fault tha Leica have not pulled their managing heads 
>out of their managing butts years ago and produced fine digatal 
>cameras for us and for our Leica glass !


That is indeed the problem, and Leica probably won't live to rue the 
day unless they get excellent digital bodies out fast. They really 
haven't revolutionised the market since the introduction of the 
M3....... :-)

>I do like traditionally Leica talk too and on other lists like 
>RangfinderForum they do not seem to have a problem with talking 
>oldstyle - not at all - and there also find time to joke af go off 
>topic in a good way - so Cheer Up Didier - this is a fine list only 
>onder little influence from canons digital sensors :-)

The LUG is a very different list now from the early days when Brian 
first set it up. It always has been a freewheeling forum, and I can 
see no reason why digital topics shouldn't loom large, given the 
irreversible transformation of the photo market over the past couple 
of years.

My Cork dealer has now gone totally digital, and I no longer get the 
chance to search for gems on his groaning s/h shelves. There are now 
just a few film bodies, and those are priced very cheaply to sell 
ASAP.

For myself, I'm quite happy to soldier on using classic film cameras 
in a 'semi-digital' way (develop film + CD only). It's only recently 
that there has been this imperative that you must see what you've got 
immediately. It doesn't worry me - after all these years of burning 
film, I know pretty well what I've got, and a 24 hour wait to see the 
result doesn't worry me.

In fact there is some curious statistic somewhere that 90% of digital 
images never get printed - hence the manufacturers pushing hi-tech 
digital printers for the masses.

What the semi-digital route gives you is the ability to edit very 
easily and quickly from the CD to identify the 'keepers' (in my case 
I'm still batting 3 to 4 per roll). Then it's back to scanning real 
film and producing great prints from that 20Mb plus of PS data.......

Best

Alex


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