Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] Schneider & Kaufmann shattering news >> As for the full-frame M, who cares? From what I have seen, the current 1.37 M yields wonderful images. What is so holy about the 35mm format?<<< Hi Nathan, I agree whole heartedly! Sure in some cases one looses the full wide angle of a 15 or so, but in reality from the first moment I put any lens on the M8 it was a no brainer.. I didn't think the lenses changed!! I shot what was there! Even though view finder lines were a bit confusing, after a couple of lining up viewfinder lines in the finder, clicking a few frames and checking the screen and coverage I knew pretty well where the lens was covering. Never thought about it again click, click! My reaction to the interview was. "Oh my God here we go again!!!!!!! There'll be 80 million LUG opinions back and forth for weeks on end while deciphering what he said, what he meant adinfinitum. It'll be the end of the world for Leica, we'll all fall into a deep LUG morass of malaise day after day with opinions like a bunch of old lady's at a tea party! Of course all completely meaningless because absolutely no body here has a drink after work with Herr Kaufmann to discuss the days events of life! However I'm with you on the M8 I don't give a rat's butt whether it's full frame or not. I just put it to my one good eye and it's click if the picture is there! It's so KISS simple just use the camera and get on with life and stop thinking about all or whatever changes there are or will be. Click click! :-) ted We may be reading different interview, but as far as I can tell he makes a pretty strong statement about future DSLRs from Leica. Was it written down on the tablets on Mount Sinai or something? I will happily stack up my tiny 4/3 images against anything I did on 35mm film in the past. Nathan On 15-mei-2008, at 8:59, Mark Rabiner wrote: > http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/5316/the-future- > of-leica. > html > > In this interview with Jason Schneider at RIT Andreas > shatters a > couple of very key assumptions or opinions I have about Leicas very > much > needed direction. > > Imagine no full frame digital Leica rangefinder. > Imagine no digital R body. > > > The second because our new Top Leica man seems to feel that a DSLR > needs to > be AF. > A very very wrong feeling in my opinion. > > Imagine whirled peas. > > > That's a whole lot of very bad news in one interview. > Very bad PR. > If I was the boss I'd fire myself on the spot. > > The R lineup of glass is nothing to cough at. > The R system needs and deserves a compact R digital body. > And so does the world. > Including me! > I'd buy one. I'd buy two! How about you? > > I don't need AutoFocus; > I AM AutoFocus. > > I focused my 24mm Nikkor 2.8 lens down Broadway for three miles > tonight from > 62nd to 110. On a Nikon D40x. > A whole lot of DSLR shooting is done with the AF turned off or with > older AI > lenses not just by me but by a lot of serious non Leica loving > people I > know. > > R&D needs to be continued to bend those little image grabbers at > the ends of > the CCD sensors inward so a lens right in the sensors face can be > used right > out to its intended image non crop circle on a digital M. > > And they should make for for a Hasselblad superwide while they're > at it. > > A high end imaging company investing into crop circle formats > strikes me as > a highly questionable paranormal eyebrow raiser. > Within 9 months with Nikon and Canon both in heavy competition > bringing the > prices down a huge movement will be created to anyone with the > slightest > pretensions to shooting a quality image to shooting 24x36 format. > Kids at > RIT for sure. Anyone with a bigger than letter sized inkjet > printer. Ebayers > who need to be shooting with the perceived latest best thing. > > The idea of Leica M glass coasting thousands of USD each only being > used in > its middle area is going to seem very off beat wacky in the year 2009. > > Can half frame film cameras compete against full frame cameras? > Not in the production of quality images. > Which means > BIG PRINTS. And smaller prints and images made at very high ISO's. > Imagine Leica modern mediocrity. > > > Hasselblad went AF became it was bought out by a high tech company > with > little empathy and touch with Hasselblad tradition and it customer > base. > No heart. Hasselblad is dead. > > I expected more from what's happening now with Leica. > I thought I was looking at some heart. > > You gotta have heart. > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/128276 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1434 - Release Date: 5/15/2008 7:24 AM