Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, you can even get more radical--remember those funny old cameras with no LCD screen and no batteries? ;-) Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:25 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > If you had an old old rare leica (as I do) then you could be producing > flower images such as this: > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/dinosaur-leica3.jpg > > (At FULL RESOLUTION!) > > The Leica Digiux is superior to nearly all other cameras because it makes > you think when you photograph. You can't simply blaze away because you > have about fourteen photos before you need to pause and change the card, > so every shot must be the right shot. Also, the batteries last for about > 16 images without using the LCD, so chimping is frowned upon and dangerous > as the camera will unexpectedly announce BYE! and shut down in the middle > of shooting. You need to compose through the OPTICAL view finder (no ELF > garbage here, glass only baby) and, more importantly, compose in your > head. > > It slows you down, It makes you think. It's quiet. You zoom with your > feet. The Digilux, Digilux Zoom and the Digilux 4.3 are the only real > digital cameras true Leica users prefer. The M-9 with it's auto-everything > is like a television compared to the works of Shakespeare in a fine folio > edition. > > (& now, thanks to Clayton McKee i have now cornered the market on Smart > Media cards. If I can just get this thing connected to a car battery, I > can shoot all afternoon.) > > > kc > > p.s. does anybody know how many digilux's and digilux 4.3's were made? > each of them had a production run of less than six months, so i'm thinking > there can't be that many of them. which, you know, makes them rare. like > shark attacks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >