Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree. I sold my R8. I kept a few R lenses that I can use on other cameras. I loved my VW bug but I can't fit no more. I usta like to bowl, but not any more. When I could walk three miles it was a pleasure to have a Chocolate Lab. She got old and so did I. Things change. Give it up; we don't need no R10. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >From what I can quickly search engine Omar Pirela Neuman is a 3D Designer. > What that may mean is that he can make anything he wants appear to be real > as he knows how to use the 3d imaging animated software he already owns and > uses everyday to make a real cartoon out of any whim of the imagination. > Campbell's soup cans which open themselves! > Yes now Leica knows that an R10 COULD exist! > Yes Leica KNEW that an R10 COULD exist last month and last year. > No This I don't think is going to inspire them. > That an R10 could exist is not the point. The point is twelve people would > buy them at what they would have to cost. > Leica does not care to make a camera for those twelve people. They just > don't have that luxury. Not even the third richest man in Europe can throw > that kind of money away. And I doubt he cares to be shown what it should > like like by 3D Designers not in the field of camera design. Its like > desktop publishing taken too far. It bad enough we had bad brochures put > together by non professionals. Now we have bad everything else literally > jumping off the page. > I'm glad when Elvis died there were no 3D designer PJ's or we'd have > footage > of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe on the moon. This wedding according to > most the tabloids took place about six months after the funeral. > People just could not accept the death of the king. > And why should they? We hear him on the radio every day. > But right now anybody wanting to do excellent photography with R glass > easily can with an adaptor and a Nikon camera. Their investment holds > solid. > And the pictures come out perfectly as can be easily found in the LUG > gallery. Even in Earths atmosphere. > > No archive > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:59:16 +0100 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hullo. Leice R Solution - now in video > > > > http://leicarumors.com/ > > > > Ph > > > > > > Le 24 janv. 11 ? 19:52, Henning Wulff a ?crit : > > > >> > >> Yes, this was discussed here last fall after the LHSA meeting at > >> which this discussion took place. > >> > >> Some things from that meeting: > >> > >> There will be an M10. Duh. > >> > >> There will be an 'R solution'. It will not be an R10, with reflex > >> viewing, and it will not be exclusively R. It will be a live view > >> camera, basically set up for M but adaptable for R. It might or > >> might not be shown at Photokina 2012, > >> > >> That was basically it. I made the comment at the time that if there > >> was not fully functional integration with R lenses the solution > >> would be pointless, as there were already solutions available for R > >> users who could live with stop down metering and manual aperture > >> control. They said they would consider that. > >> > >> All in all, it sounded like the planning was still at a very early > >> stage and I would think things will definitely change before > >> anything shows up in prototype form. Ie, don't count on anything > >> specific. The main positive thing I got from this is that the R > >> range is still in their sights, although they made it quite clear > >> that an R only body was not going to happen. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> At 12:44 PM -0800 1/20/11, Richard Man wrote: > >>> > http://leicarumors.com/2011/01/20/more-details-on-the-planned-digital-r-solu > >>> tion-from-leica.aspx/ > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Henning J. Wulff > >> Wulff Photography & Design > >> mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > >> http://www.archiphoto.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA