[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice

Even if the M8 was cheaper, for me it is still a commercially irrelevant tool. A similar situation occurred in the 80's when Rollei switched to an unreliable electronic camera, the SLX series, 6002, 6006 inclusive. Fortunately I had a couple TLRs tucked away in the trunk or a Hasselblad. All too often I was tuck in the middle of (photography) nowhere, and a motor would go out, the battery would die, a mirror flap would break a part, gears would strip, etc. Frankly, I do not go out on a limb, with my work, over a miss guided product loyalty. On the other hand, I'll even use a plate camera, if I see fit, on personal projects. 
Slobodan
Much cheaper to buy a Digital Rebel, or for those with Nikon glass a D40x, and use that. $700 is a lot less that $5,000. Especially when you know the digital body will be obsolete in only a few years, much different than when we had film bodies that would not be obsoleted so quickly.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> The Price of Analog hardware was very expensive if you wanted good
> stuff-Noctilux, Lihoff with Zeiss glass etc. I think that the cost of film > and processing depends very much on the style of shooting. Thirdly, the > price of film and processing has been radically lowered in Hong Kong at 
> least. Thanks to digital.
>
>
Marvin most this stuff you name here, Noctilux, Zeiss glass in not
exclusively in the analog realm at all.
Work done with this glass on film cameras can be scanned;
Or digital backs can be used.
Many people are using a Noctilux on their M8's for digital captures.
Though it gives them in effect a 66.5mm f1 lens.


In SLR camera systems a DSLR is just a seemingly minor edition.
Just another body.
But then you realize in your work - output its not just an SLR with a D in 
the front of it. Its a bit more enabling than that.
But all your glass is going to work or most of it. You're lenes just get a little longer but that's not a big deal just get one wider than you had before and you're even. Or more than even as you have an in effect a longer 
lens on your long end as well.



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Mark William Rabiner



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