[LRflex] Re: Leica back in the black
- From: <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:55:42 -0800
>>>Obviously, hundreds of thousands of humans successfully navigate all the
>>>brand X control schemes daily so they must work somehow, but the change
>>>is intimidating to me; e.g., after about 10 years I still cannot figure
>>>out much beyond the 3 or 4 most used commands in a little brand X p&s
>>>digital camera I have. The instruction book, about the size of the
>>>camera, is, to me, completely dense and all but unfathomable. I shudder
>>>every time I see it.<<<<<<<<,
Hi Bill,
Common sense dictates use the least number of buttons to keep it KISS
simple! Besides "REAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY NEED THE ON AND OFF BUTTONS!" :-)
Digital if ever really means "KISS operation" as 99% of all those buttons
are only there to make it look neat! ERGO! More expensive! :-)
cheers,
ted
----- Original Message -----
From: "William B. Abbott III" <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:35 AM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leica back in the black
> Douglas,
>
> That is good news after all that has transpired. I hope just some of those
> Euros will gravitate toward the patiently waiting R users. Why do I say
> that?
>
> Because in contemplating abandoning my R9/DMG for a brand X, what I have
> discovered is that my major obstacle is not lenses and flare and
> vignetting and MTBF, nor pixels or pixel density, but the mass of menus
> and buttons I see in the brand X info compared to the utter simplicity (to
> me) of the Leica controls I have come to know and love from my long, 37
> year experience with both Leica M and R cameras. Simplicity reigns, or so
> it appears to me.
>
> Obviously, hundreds of thousands of humans successfully navigate all the
> brand X control schemes daily so they must work somehow, but the change is
> intimidating to me; e.g., after about 10 years I still cannot figure out
> much beyond the 3 or 4 most used commands in a little brand X p&s digital
> camera I have. The instruction book, about the size of the camera, is, to
> me, completely dense and all but unfathomable. I shudder every time I see
> it.
>
> All the best,
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>> This morning‚s paper here in Hannover reports:
>>
>> Thanks to new products, the camera manufacturer Leica
>> is earning money again.
>>
>> In the first six months of the fiscal year 2010/2011,
>> the company achieved a net profit of 9.8 million euros
>> - following a net loss of 8. 5 million euros last year.
>> Turnover increased from 59.5 to 110.8 (!!) million euros.
>>
>> They seem to be doing something right after all.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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