[Leica] Re:Barnack Digital

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

I think the NY summer may be affecting your thoughts, but I myself have been 
using a 50mm and 85mm allot on my Lika D200. The D40x 
was just too small for my hands, plus I thought if I squeezed too hard on 
the trigger I may break it :)

Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner"
Subject: [Leica] Barnack Digital


>I got my Leica D40x today and sat it down next to my main Ax as of late I'm
> afraid to say my D200.
> It was like putting an early Barnack next to an M5.
>
>
> I have my 45 2.8 P lens on the D40x and is it a cute compact combo.
>
> I am enabled. Feel like I've been Barnacked.
>
> It is fast and quiet light and cheap. File size and I think quality level
> will be the same as I'm used to with the D200 which I mainly shoot black 
> and
> whites between ASA's 1000 and 1600.
>
> Then I put my awesomely excellent as it is awesomely cheap 50 1.8 Nikkor
> Made in China on it and it focused perfectly. I know I focused it myself
> which I enjoy doing its more intuitive as in making the image look like I
> want it to look instead of picking focus points which is barely a
> compromise..
>
> I'll take 1.8 bright snappy groundglass image and image image image over 
> the
> speed of the zooms. Though in farness I don't use the fast zooms. Too big
> for too many bucks. I'd spend big on miniaturization.
>
> It has a smaller further away eye point. A longer tunnel to look through.
> More like an 8mm movie camera, sorry Jim, thing is I like that. Seeing the
> whole shot in one glace. I get better compositions.
>
> Pouring rain and I had deadlines. And I watched the battery blink as it
> charged but it finally did and so did my backup. 2 gig cards are so cheap
> its not worth even discussing I'm using those little cards now. Like the
> ones which go in the M8's and R digital backs.
>
> I'll be up early to out our happy snapping with my fist full size imaging
> tool. Half the size of an 4/3 made with twice the crop circle in the back.
>
> I sure hope Leica comes out with a DSLR soon and that they realize,  being
> Leica, that compactness has something to do with image making. A camera at
> home; a camera not ON YOU hopefully in you pocket is not a camera worth
> discussing. The digital R back whose initials I hope I never absorb is a
> great picture taking machine for a monster designed for people with hands
> the size of slabs of pot-roast..
> The M8 cost
> 5000 / D20x 750= 6.666 D40x's.
> The Beast but I wore that album out.
>
> That's one D40 for every car in your garage if you live in a much richer
> neighborhood. Those of you with 6.666 car garages know what your property
> values worth.
>
> I was out on the sidewalk outside my apartment at night here on the edge of
> Harlem clicking away with it.
>
> Happy as a clam would be an understatement. This is a better night camera.
>
> Time for a Leica digital camera which uses Leica glass and has some spunk!
>
> M or R. But more preferably.
> SW
> LTM
>
> Which stands for.
>
>
> Small World
> Laughing to myself
>
>
> Stop and Wait
> Long Term Memory
>
>
> Stab Wound
> Less Than Major
>
>
> Since When?
> Line Terminating Multiplex
>
>
> Shrink Wrapped
> Loss Tracking Module
>
>
> Snark Wars
> Laser Target Marker
>
>
> And I just learned " Laser " means
>
> Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
>
>
> Lots of Applied Scientists Eat Regularly
>
>
> Look At Source, Erase Retina
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
>
> LSMFT
>
> rabinergroup.com
>
>
>
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