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Subject: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:51:49 -0400

I suspect that the M10 which you're going to love using and be a boom to
your work is going to have a few buttons on it which you're not going to
bother pressing. Just like a Betamax.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:55:06 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel
> 
> If a Leica M ever has live view or video, it will not be an M that I want.
>  Bells and whistles that are not needed for a digital rangefinder.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> And freaking video in the same breath!
>> I used live view on my DSLR extensively for landscapes. It was wonderful!
>> Throw on a tilt/shift lens, turn on live view that shows what you are
>> really getting when you stop down, watch it with a Hoodman loupe as you
>> fiddle with tilt and aperture until it is sharp as a tack and BOOM, what
>> you see is what you got! Loved it.
>> But not for my Leica. Since no tilt shift, all I need is an accurate hyper
>> focal scale and I'm there. And as for movies?? Well I'll leave that to
>> others to decide...
>> Sent from my living room where it's 100deg outside, 80 degrees inside, but
>> wrapped in a perpetual ice wrap which makes it like Heaven!!
>> Bob
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't understand this focus on Live View. That's a key advantage with
>>> CMOS
>>> in an M10? I'd call it a detriment not an asset! Leica's going to sell
>> more
>>> cameras because of this? Maybe not to the right people. I'm just not
>>> looking
>>> forward to seeing people holding eight thousand dollar M10's at full arms
>>> lengh in front of them as they take snap shots in Times Square.  From an
>>> image standpoint to me that just looks bad.
>>> A kind of thing getting Barnack rolling over in his grave.
>>> On my camera a D700 DSLR the Live View option slows down the operation of
>>> the camera is widely ignored by me and its other owners after trying it
>> for
>>> a minute.
>>> I just give the mass public credit for knowing that when you buy a hand
>>> constructed German camera for thousands of dollars Its for putting up to
>>> your face not holding out like an offering like using a cell phone camera
>>> or
>>> cheap point and shoot. I don't see people with big fat DSLR's which have
>>> now
>>> the option now using it that way.
>>> Perhaps Leica should give its buyers a German chocolate bar to every
>>> customer who allows them to disable that feature. Perhaps place a little
>>> leaflet in the box for the unboxing where they can read the history of
>> the
>>> Leica M for mechanical rangefinder mechanism working with triangulation
>> to
>>> give you a focus many times more accurate than a groundglass if there is
>>> one.
>>> It should not be circumvented so lightly.
>>> Either is the viewfinder mechanism with its automatic frame lines.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - - from my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:16:36 -0700
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] (Link) Interview with Stefan Daniel
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for sharing. It's confirming what we know....
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM, John McMaster <john at 
>>>> chiaroscuro.co.nz
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>> http://the.me/interview-with-stefan-daniel-leica-director-product-management
>>>>> -next-target-non-leica-users/
>>>>> 
>>>>> john
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Bob Adler
>> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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