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Subject: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Mar 21 18:10:25 2006
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B366BAAF3@case-email>

David,
I have to say that I received many positive comments about my M at PMA.
People recognized the dinosaur and applauded.  It was sort of an interesting
position to be in as I sensed some approval aspects to what should have been
a neutral choice.  Possibly, it is because the advent of digital has mostly
been disastrous to the photographic industry.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 3/21/06, David Rodgers <drodgers@casefarms.com> wrote:
>
> Four thirds is an interesting marketing strategy. It sounds like 33%
> more.
>
> If you change it to portrait rather than landscape does it transform to
> 25% less?
>
> I always thought the concept of half frame was a marketing mistake. They
> should have compared it to 127 and called it double frame. The Pen F
> would have been a huge success.
>
> Who doesn't want double of something? Who doesn't feel slighted only
> receiving half?
>
> 35mm (where did 135 come from?) should have been named by length of
> roll. Then we'd all be shooting 48 inch format and digital would be
> 1/66ths or "less than 1.5 percent format".
>
> Try and sell that one, Madison Avenue!
>
> OHOH, they'd probably just tell us how it would make our telephotos seem
> that much longer; how we can turn our economical 400mm lenses into
> expensive 600mm lenses. Where do I sign?
>
> The truth is that in the late 70s, when the SLR market was going into
> the tank all the camera companies decided they'd come up with an
> entirely new type of camera system that everyone would have to buy in
> order to take pictures. They invented the digital camera. Then someone
> realized that people would need computers in order to process the
> pictures. So they went out and found someone to invent the personal
> computer (some went to Apple and some went to IBM, but that's another
> story).
>
> What they didn't realize is that it would take 20 years for the personal
> computer to evolve into something powerful enough to process a digital
> image practically.
>
> There's been work going on this for years in a secret factory somewhere
> and camera companies can actually build a sensor the size of an 8 inch
> refractor telescope. But they know from past experience that it would be
> a mistake to roll that out today. (For one thing they'd have to increase
> the size of the modern DSLR by at least 20% to hold that size sensor).
>
> The camera companies want everyone to buy a small sensor first. Then
> they'll come up with a bigger sensor. Then a bigger one still. That way
> they'll always be able to sell new cameras; not to mention every few
> years new lens systems that will cover a wider sensor.
>
> There was one thorn in the side of this strategy. The existence of the
> Leica M rangefinder. That pesky Leica rangefinder! They couldn't kill
> it. So they went after the film companies. They put out a campaign of
> propaganda telling us how film was really bad. It wasn't easy because
> most of us knew that film was something that seemed to work pretty well
> in the past. It actually took a generation for the campaign to finally
> kick in, which serendipitously coincided with the Pentium processor. But
> work it did!
>
> Today we all feel inadequate shooting film, even though in truth film is
> still the best medium. If you can't kill film, what to you do. You kill
> the darkroom!
>
> I've researched this carefully and I've concluded that the digital
> revolution is one big capitalistic conspiracy. Fortunately, they can't
> kill the LUG. Those of you who are agents for the dark side, we're onto
> you!
>
> DaveR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Didier Ludwig [mailto:rangefinder@screengang.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:22 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
>
>
> >Now more then 3/4 of the postings are related to Olympus.
>
> Olympus is rather 4/3 than 3/4!
>
> >Please, y'all, lets stay on-topic for users of Leica cameras.
>
> You want to shrink the LUG down to 1%?
>
> :-Didier
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Replies: Reply from bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE)
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