Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not quite true that video does not require additional hardware, over that of Live View. Now I just need to be rich enough to decide whether to get the GFX50s or the M10, but since that won't happen, it's all academic. I am actually leaning toward a CFV-50c. Too bad it cost money. On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > The video feature, once you can do Liveview, is a bunch of code. Costs > nothing in hardware. Liveview seems like a useful function. Testing focus > accuracy, maybe dark places, maybe awkward position of the camera compared > to the eye.... > I have had 4 cameras that do video. Have no idea if it works or not on > any of them. > > For others, it is a must have...... > To each his own..... > > The Real Leica Macho Man ( Woman), would never use it...... It is not > traditional, it is not film, it is not B+W, it is not ..Henri > Cartier-Bresson macho. > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > Cameras are designed by committees of marketers and engineers, both people > that tend to load cameras with unimportant features. One of those is video. > I'll bet that many of us on this list, photographers all, have never shot > a video with our digital camera, > > -----Original Message----- > > So is this simply a specification issue or is it a real problem? > > I see the M10 as being what a digital Leica should be. Every ?modern? > digital I have shoots video. The number of times I have used that > capability? Less than 1% of the time I spend taking photos and literally no > one has ever seen the video results. Hard to hang video on the wall > (although the new LG TV might make me eat those words). > > Adam Bridge > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> richardmanphoto on Facebook and Instagram <https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto>