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Subject: [LEICA] The Joys of an M
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sat Jun 4 07:35:25 2005

I still have yet to touch the Epson. The fact that they made relatively
few of them and they are still readily available makes me wonder if
anyone else will make one.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:51 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [LEICA] The Joys of an M


Hi Jeffery,

Yes, the shutter lag with P&S makes street photography (or any other 
kind of photography where you need to react quickly) very difficult. 
This is one of the reasons I never considered digital before I tried a 
friend's DSLR last year and realized that the shortcomings of digital 
that I knew about applied mainly to P&S cameras but had been largely 
solved in the world of DSLRs.

Having said that, I do like the rangefinder style, and if Leica (or 
someone else) comes up with a good digital M at a price I can afford, I 
will take a very hard look at it. The current Epson effort isn't it, 
however.

Nathan

Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Ted and Nathan:
> 
> I have gotten some very good images on my Panasonic Digilux II, but 
> the shutter lag is just murder for me for anything spontaneous. Street

> Photography is daunting enough, but the feeling that my camera is not 
> responding at all is really disheartening. I could always take Sonny's

> advice and turn much of the automation off, but having auto white 
> balance and autofocus is what gives me the good results. That means I 
> resort to taking the Pentax dSLR or Olympus dSLR. That means weight. 
> Grrr....
> 
> I just received 200 rolls of Agfa from B&H. Let me put a dent in that,

> and I'll get back to digital in between rolls.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> 

-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

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