Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/28

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Subject: [Leica] Sony RX1 Rangefinder Magazine
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:18:48 -0500
References: <CDF37F2C.C63E%mark@rabinergroup.com>

My first camera book was by Herbert Keppler (The Honeywell Pentax Way, from 
the mid-60's). And then my father surprised me with a copy of "The Family of 
Man" (recommended by my uncle Willard, a photographer).


On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Well I don't know I'm sitting there sipping a supposed Starbucks espresso 
> by
> non Starbucks trained Barnes and Noble personal talking to the regulars 
> with
> something in front of me? What is that something going to be?
> A fresh translation  of Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre?
> Well if there's anything I like better than anything its magazines.
> I may like them more than books. Or cameras.
> If they had a magazine on Jean-Paul Sartre I'd maybe read it.
> For me the printed page wins over pixels on my screen by a country mile
> easily and every time. Copy in hand. Ink on paper. Halftone screen. CMYK
> cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. turn the page. Rip out the magazine
> subscription tag.
> - if I find a nice article on the internet if I really want to read it I
> print it out. I absorb much more from a printed page then my NEC Monitor.
> Might be my particular brand of anti pixel dyslexia.
> 
> The old days are gone with Cora Wright Kennedy and Bill Pierce and Jason
> Schneider doing their monthly columns at Pop and Modern.  Sint. Norman
> Goldberg and Norman Rothschild. Arthur Goldsmith, Don Leavitt, Bob
> Schwalberg, Edward Meyers, Jacob Deschin, Ed Farber,  Howard Chapnick.
> Herbert Keppler.
> Those days are long gone. But I still love the photo mags.
> Both Pop and Modern were mainly gadget mags but in the 70's they had 
> gravure
> center pages. These pages looked much better than what was coming out of my
> and my friends darkrooms. Better blacks. Better tones. They were a real
> inspiration.  But in content and printing. Those days are gone.
> But then we got  American  Photographer which was really about photography
> and photographers while Pop and Modern was about Cameras.
> I read the first I issue cover to cover and ever issue since cover to 
> cover.
> And pretty much everybody I hung out with did too.
> But I no longer buy them all. Or subscribe, I buy very few. But have a new
> one right next to my bed right now. Just like the good old days.
> (he crosses room and gets it)
> I see its the Pop Photog July issue:
> "Shootout! Pro Compacts!
> Big DSLR size sensors put amazing photo quality in your pocket P. 66
> Lab & Field Tests
> Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR."
> Reading it in the Starbucks was not enough.
> I had to bring it home and put it under my pillow. Absorb it over night.
> 
> I found out about the new almost or just out Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR
> not from the internet but from this magazine last week.
> Compact pocketable cameras with APS-C sized sensors.
> Five of them. Two just out. The Sony NEX 1 full rame. in a side box in the
> corner
> 
> I shelled out real money and brought it home.
> And it cost five bucks.
> http://blog.netbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/five-bucks.jpg
> 
> http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/jason-schneider-rennai
> sance-man-on-a-motorcycle/
> 
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/7xth4e5
> 
> On 6/28/13 4:53 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good reason why--who needs 'em anymore?
>> Want a review of the latest equipment?  Count the bloggers/writers who
>> post them for free.
>> Or go to your favorite discussion board and see what's new and exciting.
>> Want to see pictures of the latest gear? Free images abound on the web.
>> Want information faster than, say, once a month?  Again, the web.
>> 
>> Sure, they're fun while killing time at (one of the remaining, though
>> likely not for long) book superstores.  And it's nice to see some of our
>> friends, such as Tina, featured in one or another.
>> 
>> But otherwise, who cares?
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On 
>> Behalf Of
>> Mark Rabiner
>> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:47 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sony RX1 Rangefinder Magazine
>> 
>> The June 2013 Insight  Marketing issue of the paper Rangefinder Magazine
>> which I tend to look at over espressos at the Barnes and Noble caf? is out
>> with a shot on the cover of a fashion model type in a plane with a life
>> magazine on her lap and kerchief on her head. Highly styled. On very
>> glossy stock.
>> The very well printed cover was shot with the Sony  Rx1 full frame But
>> when you read the article inside you find most the shots of the shoot were
>> done with a typical current Nikon DSLR. And you get a side by side
>> comparison. Only its top to bottom on the page. They really seem to match
>> up psychologically human nature kind of thing we may be rooting for the
>> Sony.
>> Looking at the cover of the paper in hand printed copy one could easily
>> belive it was medium format digital or film. I may have...
>> Although the quality of the printing and paper is top notch we'd really
>> want to be seeing much larger prints to gee a real idea of what these
>> sensors are outputting. But this example is very real world.
>> Below I found the digital issue an urls.
>> But try to see in in the magazine rack.
>> I still read photo magazines.
>> Pretty much all of them
>> Pretty much cover to cover.
>> Pretty much since I was 12 in 1963.
>> You don't hear much about the photo magazines on the lists. Don't know
>> why.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/June-2013-Insight-7572.
>> sh
>> tml
>> http://tinyurl.com/nudal96
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.rangefinderonline.com/index.shtml
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/28/13 11:20 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
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>> Photography
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>> 
>> 
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