Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >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. The DMR's image quality isn't the issue. Its availability is. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com