[LRflex] Re: Leica S2 in hand
- From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@xxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:17:51 -0700
On Oct 1, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:
If they can not provide auto-aperture with the current R lenses,
tell them
to cancel the camera. It will be a disaster..
This is the one feature that will make the Canon and Olympus and all
the
other ( read this as significantly cheaper and possibly already
available to
potential buyers) cameras with adapters go away. Completely and
absolutely.
I suspect that will likely be entirely true for the pros Frank...
while the S2 is a major and exciting advance for Leica, it has the
world buzzing...seems it's only for the pro's, and only a particular
sort of well heeled pro at that...
..... by the time it actually can be purchased it may be old news,
equalled and surpassed by Canon, Nikon, Hasselblad and other
competitors, and so expensive anyway that very few will buy one...
(and if the S2 isn't auto aperture for R lenses, the R10 won't have
auto aperture either...let alone auto focus)
as for the R10 (wow, never have so many words been washed over a
camera that doesn't exist....surpasses the WWII Italian
rifle...having never been fired and dropped only twice)
the trickle down better trickle soon, even then the R10 will be most
appreciated by us wha's, ldandic's, who can fathom using a lens that
you must actually focus...
It seems a curious strategy by leica, no new R digital, that's no
surprise for many of us...instead of a camera that many who have
supported leica for years really want, we get a camera that is new,
different, promises great things, is prohibitively expensive, so much
so that few can afford and fewer will buy...with a promise we all will
benefit from its trickle...at what price?
Let's get real folks...
I'll believe it when I see it... I have hung on to my R lenses, and I
just bought an R6...
last time I tuned in to this nonsense, Steven Lee was the saviour, he
was going to bring us to the promised land,
now he's gone and he's sueing the company...
The S2 plans look impressive, seen in a world shielded from reality,
but in our world, I remain entirely unimpressed...
Steve
Auto apersature is a 1960's issue.... maybe before..... even the Exakta
could do it...... It is NOT optional. No ( technical, Germanic,
Austrian,
marketing BS, or otherwise) excuses.. I could care less how hard it
is to
do. Get it in there.
Without the sbility to USE ( not kludgey) the old lenses, the bodies
will
not sell... I don't care how many GP, low light, optimum quality, or
otherwise. Ergonomics is terribly important.
So how so I really feel? Like this is critical.
Frank Filippone
red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The one "price" for this compatibility will be the mechanism required
to actuate the aperture in the older lenses. Electronic aperture
control (as is done in Canon and the S2, among others) is cheaper to
implement than a mechanical method, while also being more
reliable. Doing both would cost Leica more. But, again, Pentax has
kept their mechanical aperture control and maintained a very
competitive price. So, if they can do it, I guess Leica can, too.
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