The Leica Business

[Daniel_OB]

Roger, every photograph consist of so many features tecnical (as sharpness, bokeh, ...) and aesthetical too (as guiding line, perspective, shades details, elements distributions,...). Every single element can be called in some cases trivial. And for many, unnoticable nearly all are trivial.
If you disrigard bokeh in most cases drawing will be much better medium than photography (if we eliminate time), however the problem is that it requires talent, unlike photography (where talent is not requirement). Bresson used camera and photography because of second property of photography (if we say bokeh is first), and it is instantenousness (an instant drawing). In the case he was not in need for that property of the medium and truth, he used pencil, some other use painting, ...
But photography as all of other mediums has properties that make it different, make it unique, make it distigushable. If you do not care for that properties your choice of medium as comunication is wrong or one just do not know what is it he want to comunicate. If a guy want to comunicate truth, as we saw yesterday on pictures from Port Hope, how it will looks like as water color? So choice of medium is critical, and one have to have criterion to choose the medium.
I just do not know why i loose my time writing this for I am 100% sure you know it all.

I really have no idea about lens rework and if M8 is a good tool for it I give it a chance, for have no choice that to beleive what you said.

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[Woolliscroft]

I'm primarily a Leica R user and have a plethora of R lenses and cherish their quality. I occasionally use my M6 TTL and like it too. However, I didn't buy the digital attachment for my R8 because of its absurd $5,000+ cost and I don't intend to switch to digital imaging capture because I LOVE film so much. But if Leica creates a completely digital R camera with a sensible price I might consider buying it for some purposes.

Terry

I also avoided the R digital module, despite the attractive prospect of a manual focus DSLR, partly, like you, because of cost, partly because of the mini sensor which would have wrecked my much used 19mm lens, and partly because the thing just made the camera way too big. Much though I prefer film and use it far more than digital in my work, I still have to use digits quite a bit, but I've never found a DSLR I like. If Leica were to build a manual focus digital R10 which was the same size as the film version and had a full frame 35mm sensor so that my existing R lenses still had the same angle of view I'd buy one to use alongside my R7's.

David.