Forgive me, Oh Great Godfrey, for presuming to know anything without your assent.
Git Anthony Farr (not born yesterday) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 3:23 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: [OT] Leica M8 Field Test > > Ok then. Have it your way, believe whatever it is you want to > believe, whether right or wrong. Carry on bitching about something > you know little about, that few if any of you have even touched never > mind experienced for yourself. > > I'm done with this thread. Another grand waste of time. > > Godfrey > > PS: Tina Manley took her M8 to India recently and brought back > delightful photos made with it. She's brought it to South America, > Central America, and other places as well. She also has a Canon DSLR > kit (5D, I think) and finds the M8 produces better photographs. > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > > > On Jun 12, 2008, at 7:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A lot of the pro photographers I know own a Leica M8. Very few use it. > > Paul > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > From: Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> 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.
