Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, The third Leica is Leica Microsystems. They too are doing very well. Cheers, John On 5/17/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >