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Subject: [Leica] Another R option
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:08:56 +0530
References: <BANLkTi=0LuSi8rpRHsy2o65jBNUa-+wKqg@mail.gmail.com> <CA19D631.10165%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,
We are talking about a back up and not a primary camera body.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> The best time to get a cutting edge piece of digital technology is always
> next year. The problem comes when know you are heading out on that weekend
> to get some maybe key shots and you want them to come out as well as
> possible and be something resembling up to date technology wise. ? And this
> weekend is not next year. Definite jumps are made in digital camera
> technology in very few years. ?The level moves up. Lots of people buy these
> things it behooves the people that make them to try to be on the cutting
> edge hopefully ahead of their competition. These people are not making any
> money sitting on thier hands. And that's is the point. A guy cant be 
> faulted
> sitting on his either.
> The Leica Digital Modul R started to ship ?June 2005 that's six years ago. 
> A
> half dozen years. ?It came with a SanDisk 256MB Ultra II card . ? I think
> that's enough time for the level of digital technology to reinvent itself a
> couple of times at least. And it was a 1.37x crop circle.
> Many of us including me were still shooting with a D100 in June 2005. At 
> the
> very end of the year the D200 came out I experienced a huge leap. Now I'd
> consider that camera to be a near paperweight. I'm sure I could sell it for
> 50 bucks but I'd have to live with myself. The D700 is much more a huge 
> leap
> than the past one for me by a mile it came out in 2008 and put Nikon back 
> in
> business with Canon as it had fallen far behind.
> I don't think a guy can be faulted for wanting to be more up to date in
> what's going on digitally results wise and everything else wise.
> Just because something is made in Denmark does not mean its technologically
> unstuck in time.
>
> Mark
>
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> Photography
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>
>
>
>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:05:22 +0530
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option
>>
>> When the DMR packs it up. It cannot take more than a couple of weeks
>> for the conversion, can it? In that period if you want a camera
>> urgently, hire it, if necessary with lenses for the duration of the
>> job. Why take a decision on a technology which is undergoing profound
>> changes every year before you absolutely need to? Who knows, even
>> Leica might have come out with their promised solution by then.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Doug Herr
>> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>>
>>>> In that case my advice to you would be to wait till you need a
>>>> replacement
>>>
>>> Would be nice if I could predict when that would be.
>>>
>>> Doug Herr
>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>>
>>>
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