> > On 19/05/2012 17:00, Bob W wrote: > > Leica has their own megapixel farm in Southern Bavaria > > > > B > > No wonder Leicas are so expensive. That's as close to Switzerland as > you can get without having to yodel your order to the shop assistasnt.
it's the only place where children have good enough eyesight and nimble enough fingers to do the sorting. At least until the age of 7, by which time their vision is destroyed and their hands are too arthritic to continue, so they send them to the lace factories in Belgium. The girl in this picture is only 10, but look at her! < http://www.mbd.be/picts/home-1.jpg> Still, it's worth it for such a good camera. And after all, hardly any of them are my children. B > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > >> Of Bob Sullivan > >> Sent: 19 May 2012 15:34 > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> Subject: Re: Rumor of a new intro Pentax Body > >> > >> Bob, > >> I especially want some free-range organic megapixels. > >> Wow, I didn't know Leica had those! > >> Regards, Bob S. > >> > >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Bob W<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> [...] > >>>> I take the general point you and others are making: many/most > >>>> purchasers don't know what they are doing, and they will be overly > >>>> impressed by whatever facts and figures the advertisers and sales > >>>> persons are throwing out. But the MP arms race will peak soon, if > >>>> it hasn't already. > >>>> > >>>> stan > >>>> > >>> > >>> one of my brothers was rather scathing about my Leica because it > >>> doesn't have as many megapixels as his phone. A lot of people don't > >>> seem to realise that there are megapixels and there are mgeapixels. > >>> Mine are all first cold-pressed extra virgin long-staple Egyptian > >>> tree-ripened, shade-grown, free-range organic megapixels, whereas > he > >>> got his from a bloke in Woolwich Market. > >>> > >>> B > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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. > > > > > > > -- > No fixed Adobe > > -- > 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.
