No argument from me about those points, William. The Leica seems ill-conceived for its traditional purpose. As others have said, the new purpose of a Leica is as bling, or investment on the collectors market. A camera's prestige value should flow downwards from the pointy end of professional usage, but Leica apparently seeks to redefine prestige as flowing upwards from the lowest common denominator of "how much cash can we screw out of our wealthy clientele who don't know shit from clay".
When Godfrey points out that many pro-photographers are successfully using M8s, I am reminded that many pro-photographers could produce art from a Diana. That's no great defense for the Leica, it's praise for those photographers. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > William Robb > Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 11:29 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: [OT] Leica M8 Field Test > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Farr" > Subject: RE: [OT] Leica M8 Field Test > > > > > I'm not talking about you of course, Mark, because I don't recall you ever > > bitching and moaning about the onerous burden of using a modern camera. > > The guy isn't bitching about using a modern camera, he is bitching that his modern > Leica is > fundamentally useless in any of the parameters that a photographer uses to > determine usability, > and doesn't perform as well as cameras five or more years old. > The camera needs to be disassembled to check if there is a memory card in it. > Neither auto nor maual white balance seems reliable for giving consistent white > balance. > The camera is useless to him (and honestly to most anyone else) because the > images at ISO's > above 640 were too noisy. > Auto exposure was unreliable. > Furthermore, an *istD outperforms it's buffer size and write speeds. > > In November 2006, I wrote about the M8 > "They (Leica) just bought themselves a coffin and a gun. > Bye-Bye Leica. > > It appears that in a year and a half, they haven't corrected any of the problems with > the > camera. That is absolutely unacceptable for a 10K piece of equipment. > > William Robb > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
