[LRflex] Re: Non Leica, Digital Wanderings, The R10 tha I dream of.

On Sep 25, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Bille Xavier F. wrote:

>
> Here is another one:

> http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/Buffet.jpg
>
> Surprising, eh?
>
> ---> Given the tremendous possibilities of this little Point and  
> shoot,
> given to see what a simple old digital camera can do,

Xavier -

Thanks for putting forth this provocative and courageous position.   
Here's what I think you like about the camera: it's small, easy to  
snap with and inexpensive.

What I think you like about the pictures is that they seem sharp (and  
reasonably well illuminated and exposed.)  I feel that you're very  
much on the mark with using computer monitor display as one of the  
main criteria in making your point, because the sharpness impression  
(in the tableshot), I believe, is partially a result of 1:1 pixel  
mapping. In other display forms this machine might not bite the eye  
the same way.

But your pictures also exemplify some of the things I can't tolerate  
about these little marvels, especially all the distortion in the  
tableshot, and the fact that the thing probably snapped the picture  
later than you intended in the shot with the dancer's arm on the  
right side of the photo.

And in fact, it is the "everything in focus" small-sensor thing which  
also drives me nuts sometimes when I'm trying to get the image to  
look a lot less busy.

I gotta tellya that as a guy who just LUVS small, light, and  
inexpensive gear, I bought a sorta high-end small (not quite pocket- 
size) digisnapper a couple of years ago and HATED it.

So, I've taken the opposite approach to your small-supplement-to-the- 
serious-snapper-solution and just taken to hauling around my 20D as a  
one-box compromise instead.  It's not nearly as small as a digicam  
and won't produce the big-time results that the DMR will under some  
circumstances but it's the way for me at the moment.

Bob Palmieri

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