[Leica] NO R solution @ Photokina

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I'm looking forward to the special LS/MFT system
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> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:59:09 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Conversation: [Leica] NO R solution @ Photokina
> Subject: Re: [Leica] NO R solution @ Photokina
> 
> You keep good notes Hoppy you're a main source in this list for as I see 
> it:
> Leica reality.
> 
> In the reality area I do think there's a big difference between the camera
> guru's who have their act together enough to be fed secrets and keep them. 
> And
> the guys who make stuff up and keep it a secret which part of their
> imagination they got it from. Then call it "rumors" which in internet 
> parlance
> get elevated from a traditional bad thing your second grade teacher warns 
> you
> about to an exalted center of internet attention.
> 
> I took notes of Dr. Andreas Kaufmann's addresses in Rochester and Wetzlar. 
> Who
> can read them? I sure can't! So I'd generally not bother looking at them
> again.  I put them under my pillow at night and hope for the best.
> Digital audio recorders could have changed my academic life. I have one 
> right
> here. It's recording my wishes and dreams as I type.
> 
> In a characteristically brilliant move Leicas MFT camera was the supersonic
> X1; as an MFT camera with a 1.5 crop sensor instead of a 2x. And a 
> viewfinder.
> A pocket camera by any other name.
> Big pictures small negatives; just like the S system which is a 1x camera
> system with a .7 crop (or close) sensor.
> Big pictures small negatives.
> Small negatives which are bigger than the other camera companies small
> negatives.
> Big pictures small cameras might have been more to the point.
> 
> MFT did not as could be assumed stand for Medium Format Transformer.
> But Micro Four Thirds -  In a couple of years the camera which go in our
> pockets will be a 1x crop circle (FF!?!?!) in time for stocking stuffing in
> the year 2012.
> 
> I'm looking forward to the first medium format rangefinder digital cameras.
> But I'm wanting it so much I'm going to declare that its a rumor; and I've 
> got
> the frequency. And wont say what that frequency is even if your name is
> Kenneth.
> It used to be called "creative visualization."
> Not its called manic clamoring for pipe dreams.
> 
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
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