Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 whining
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Sep 14 15:47:22 2006

On 9/14/06 6:32 PM, "John Collier" <jbcollier@shaw.ca> typed:

> Who cares about The 1.33 crop factor!
> 
> Did you notice that There Are No New Slide Projectors!!
> 
> What the #?&*@!! is Leica up to??!!
> 
> At the very least they should have issued a limited edition Year of
> the Dog P300IR!
> 
> By gawd, ever since they dropped the IIIg, Leica has being going to
> h*** in a handbasket. If I get any more annoyed, I will blow up into
> about a million pieces and won't that be a mess.
> 
> Curmudgeonly yours,
> 
> John Collier
> 
> PS: Any bets on wether there will be a special "Year of the Dog" M8? ;-)
> 
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Leica had supposedly disinvested itself from the slide projector biz a few
years ago and we talked about it a small bit on the lug.
And here they were making them with units accepting regular Kodak trays and
everything finally after all those years.

Now projectors are BACK on the Leica site with no pre nor post explanation!
I'm happy about it.

I'm real un fond of digital projection so far. Bummer after bummer.


But with Leica back to backing slide projectors I'm encouraged!

I think of serious photography even people who do lots of digital like
myself can output to slide and have that stuff projected with Leica glass
with the stuff actually shot with Leica glass; or whatever! And it all comes
out looking great.

Lets hope ma & pop and the sisters cousins and aunts from the ACM
Projektentwicklung clan also likes to show dark family slides after dinner
putting their guests to sleep. If they do they're ok with me!


Mark Rabiner

40?46'58.65"N  73?49'31.68"W
Whitestone NY 11357

http://rabinergroup.com/







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