Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Tue Dec 6 09:52:15 2005

"David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote:

> For the life of me, I will never understand the 'obsolete' arguments
> regarding technology. It seems to me you are buying into the
> marketer's vision by thinking this way. I will use the same example I
> used three other times on this list, my Nikon D100 is still as good a
> camera as it was when I bought it almost 4 years ago. The picture
> quality has not degraded simply because other camera's "megapixel"
> count has increased. My lenses have not turned to dust, in fact I even
> have the original memory card I bought when I got the camera. It still
> stores photos!

It's not that the older technology has deteriorated.  It's because better 
technology is now availalbe at reasonable cost.  If you are working 
commercially then the image quality that was acceptable 4 years ago may no 
longer be commercially acceptable.  Standards change.  I used loads of 
Kodachrome X and a lot of High Speed Ektachrome in the 1960s and 1970s and 
if these films were available now they'd produce the same image quality they 
did then (all other factors equal) but the world has moved on and the 
quality of these films is now considered so poor compared with modern films 
that there's no way I'd be satisfied with them now.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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