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Subject: [Leica] Another R option
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:07:31 -0400

You mean back up theory? A complex subject. A relative of string theory.
What's a good backup camera for an M9 for instance?
Another M9 that's what.
I'm in that school of thought on that. Not one which says get a cheaper deal
because its only a backup.

Mark

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Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:08:56 +0530
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option
> 
> 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
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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