[Leica] Leica Geosystems vs. Leica the Camera

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Leica Geosystems is in the news every day.
I have a news alert email thing for the word "Leica".
Every morning I get "Leica" news.
For about a week now. It's been Leica Geosystems. A thriving company all
unto itself into all kinds of cool stuff.
Yesterday on the LUG I found out that if Leica Geosystems it doesn't do
diddly for "Leica the camera", our favorite company.
What's the third Leica? "Leica the tractor parts company" I forgot.

Well I think Leica Geosystems should with all it's resources and influence
try to help out it's ex second cousin making cameras.
Maybe put some of those Geosystems into I guess not an M but an R.
Like with the digital back when you look at all the metadata and found out
which f stop you actually used and which light point area you were it it
tells you where on the Globe you clicked off the shot.
I'd love this. I think everybody would.
Next to my Signature at the bottom right of each of my fine art prints I'd
put the coordinates.
And the temperature. Not color temperature.
But temperature temperature.
What good is a picture of a tree if you don't know if it's below freezing or
not?

And although the M system does not have AutoFocus Leica Geosystems should
have a built in "LASER" beam to tell you how far the thing is away. Plus all
kinds of other useful info.
Like if you should be using a 3 wood instead of a 1 iron.
And wind correction factor.

And I think they are all set to give us a wire frame of the building we are
shooting a picture of with all relevant dimensions.
Like in La Femme Nikita. That USA network TV show I used to watch and every
other show on that network I think. The USA network apparent completely
owned and operated in Canada. Hence the name.

And if any unfriendlies are lurking around in there in a red hot infrared
video read out. Like Arnolds "Predator".

A "LASER" beam which fits into a hot shoe of any camera can always come in
handy. Puts a red dot on their front tooth when they smile. But you could
use " Red-Tooth Reduction feature" built right into the software.
It's a answer in search  of a question if you ask me.




Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/