Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Thinking about a D700 or D7000 long reply IMGs
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:22:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

H&ECummer wrote:

>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:35:02 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Thinking about a D700 or D7000 long reply IMGs
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>> Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>
>>> I was 'forced' into nikon by the scuttling of the R system and my  
>>> desire
>>> to continue using an SLR in far away places. I had already risked  
>>> the DMR
>>> in the Arctic and Antarctic and had 'survived', but I knew that the  
>>> dusty
>>> conditions of our next venture to Africa would sorely test the  
>>> Leica: this
>>> was confirmed by Jay and Howard, who simply told me to "forget it".
>>
>> How did Jay and Howard confirm this?  Did they take a DMR to Africa  
>> and it failed?
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>Hi Doug,
>I sent Alastair the following picture and wondered if his rare and  
>irreplaceable DMR would survive.
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/TigerPeople/JeepDustw.jpg.html
>

Ah!  The FUD factor.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com