Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Something we won't see going forward. Batteries alone will make older cameras unusable ~10 years after production. Hopefully we will see a plateau in pixel count, x-axis stabilization, 8k video, ~16 stops dynamic range, 50,000 noiseless ISO, framing rate ad nauseum. Sony's latest e-mount drops to 50mp but adds 8k video and a 9k viewfinder and 20+ frames per second with flicker free viewfinder. I find the 60mp of my current camera to be quite freeing. I know the folks using the Q2 find that camera's capabilities to be amazing. I am not sure what things realistically need to be added in the future. Ergonomics is one area, maybe a rethink of micro 4/3's with a 40mp sensor. That direction might be useful to get lens sizes down. Current high performance lenses are quite large. Pick up a Zeiss Otus sometime. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 12:07 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Sitting at home in more or less confinement, I started looking through > my images for ones that seemed significant. This one caught my eye. It > was taken about 13 years ago, but has much more history. I began to get > the photography bug in 1951, but could only afford a Kodak Brownie. As a > young USAF Lt. with a wife to support, new photo gear was a dream. I > spent some of my free time in Trader Horn's used camera area of the > Salem Camera Shop near our apartment in Dayton, Ohio, watching for a > buying opportunity. I finally found a used Leica IIIa with a new focal > plane shutter and a coated Elmar 50/3.5 lens that I couldn't resist. > Researching the serial number told me it probably started life around > 1934 as a Leica III, and was later factory converted to a IIIa with the > addition of a top shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second. > > This camera introduced me to a life-long hobby that has taken me through > a number of cameras and systems, but, the quality of its images was > first class. The early images are just as sharp as the ones I make today. > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210126-2006_0219LeicaIIIa0003small.JPG.html > > Polished up in Lightroom and Photoshop. > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information