Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]-----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] A lot of DMR attention Geoff offered: Subject: [Leica] A lot of DMR attention WARNING, please disregard post if speculation annoys you. I was just checking my subscription to LFI when I noticed an ad for the LFI issue to correspond with Photokina. What should I see in the issue index but: Cover photo by DMR/R9 Photographer with DMR/R9 article on aesthetic imagery R system digital article Photojournalist article about why he loves his digital R R lenses, the heart of the R system. Photographer article on experimentation with DMR by landscape photographer Whatever can these mean!! Go ahead and get all unsettled and speculative you R guys! Oh Geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz Geoff, Now you've opened a can of big hairy worms! :-) Damn for the next 4 months it'll be absolutely the wildest speculations, rumors by the bushel, technical hype numbers with more speculations, lots of "I heard from a reliable source stories." At least 8 hundred thousand suggestions of "what I want in the new Leica R9." Followed by all the, "What I don't want in the new Leica R9." Oh the crying, wailing and weeping will be heard the world over. :-( Global Warming? It'll be a summer from hell. Only to be followed with it was all a big wild campaign for the fun of it to see how many LUGITTES would swallow the bait hook line and sinker! :-) :-) :-) Oh my gosh how am I ever going to sleep tonight with the weight of this news clamping on my poor pea pickin' brain? :-) The HORROR of it all! How could you? Oh the pain! The end is near! :-) If only Leica kept absolutely silent, made 1,000,000 R type digital cameras with super fantastic auto-focus lenses and shipped them about the world. Then offered a special deal, " first 1000 customers to purchase receive the lens of their choice free!" OK I'm dreaming! :-) The publicity from that alone would be worth $10,000,000 in immediate sales over night. Well OK so I'm exaggerating slightly, but I bet it would open a great number of eyes and wallets! I know dream on ted, it ain't going to happen! :-) Ted Hi Ted, glad you took my teasing the R guys so calmly and even kicked off the speculation ;-) I don't know what we'll talk about once Photokina has actually come and gone! Maybe the wrongful dismissal case that Steven Lee is reportedly bringing. There's a big PMA photo show here on the weekend. I must grill the guy from Solms for all of the goss. Stand by for News at 11. Personally I think that the whole LFI magazine DMR issue is an obituary! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information