[Leica] the DMR has landed

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

I think the main thing is, despite all the bitching and moaning about this 
and that with Leica, and how incompetent they are etc. etc. generally they 
don't produce crap.

Sure one can argue who the heck wants a macro Elmar 90/4, or even a 'cron 
75/2 in 2005. Or that the quality is no longer there, nee' the dusty MP 
viewfinder etc. etc.

But the fact of the matter is, Leica stuff works, and works well. Sure, 
MP/M7 is may be no more than 10% improvement, if that (some may argue none 
or worse) over a M3, so you can wonder aloud what the heck Leica has been 
doing the last 50 years... and I wonder about that too :-)

But, it can be pretty safe to assume that the DMR and the M digital, if it 
ever comes, will work, and work quite well. The fact is, given the limit of 
the technology, they push it. They don't push the limit of the 
technologies, that's a different thing. So Digilux 2 is by all account, a 
great 5 MP camera with that size sensor. The MP/M7 is as good as they can 
get w/o changing the shutter, size, or whatever. Even the hunchbacks of 
Solm have their fans.

I have the 35/1.4ASPH, 50/1.4ASPH, and the 90/2AA. I know that when I take 
that shot on the M7, if I compose right and set the exposure correctly etc. 
the camera and lens will not fail me. I can shoot at 1.4. I am the weakest 
link. It feels good to have a camera system like that.

At 03:10 AM 6/30/2005, you wrote:

>Hard to judge by just a couple of shots, but I like the color
>handling. Clumsy way of saying, nice colors.
>
>Daniel

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