More stuff on the M8 from the WWW

[greggebhardt]

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0609/nuts-bolts.html

 

[Jon Perry]

"(3) You can scan 8x10 negatives with a really cheap scanner."

😀

 

[rxmd]

Jon,

i find "(2) The 8x10 camera really impresses girls." at least as remarkable 🙂

Philipp

 

[irees]

He should ask an engineer why not all cameras have 32 bit dynamic range..

 

[jaapv]

Leica users tend to band together in cults

How true!! 😀

 

[greggebhardt]

How true!! 😀

He did hit the "cult" thing right on the head!😱

 

[AndyPiper]

Greg: Nice find!

DigitalJournalist is one of the few websites I can claim is "work-related" if I log on from the office (newspaper). And I've been reading Bill Pierce's "Nuts and Bolts" ever since I first picked up a photography magazine in high school (the late Camera 35, but he also wrote for Pop. Photo). But I'm on vacation and forgot to look for the August 'edition'.

Pierce also wrote about 1/3rd of the chapters in the 1970's edition of The Leica Manual.

 

[DaveKennedy]

I'm glad to hear that he considers it a pro camera. And I dearly hope that it's good at high ISO....

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Leica users tend to band together in cults

How true!! 😀

Oh, man, I have to go and start finding a goat now, don't I?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I'm looking forward to to the day that a journalist's camera, through built-in cell phone, satellite phone or wireless Internet lets the photographer transmit pictures back to the main office directly from his camera.

Wow, the whole workflow skipped! No color correction, no noise correction, nothing, nothing! standing in the way between the camera and the newsroom. And with 8-12 fps... hmm, I think we already have that; don't they call it live TV?

I think there will be one other improvement in digital cameras that will be harder to put your thumb on. When you see how images can be changed in programs like Photoshop, you realize that the software in cameras can also affect image quality. While you can use that to compensate for a specific fault in a lens like vignetting, I imagine the camera manufacturers are using software to chase down a far more elusive quality – "sharpness."

(my italics)
While it's not "vignetting", but light falloff what he's referring to (and two very different concepts, which to the populi look the same), he's right here, including his "Geez" factor. I too am weary of this "sharpness" game. A lot of cheating was done in the 50s to accomplish this. It will never end.

I can see his sticking to his guns with LF. I don't have the setup or time for it, unfortunately, but have some MF gear, so I can understand a little bit of his sentiment. The problem is that digital is being seen as a substitute, not a complement. Then again, it's "professionals" that drive the industry, and their needs are fulfilled by all the conveniences of digital.

That is, of course, until Microsnot implodes in a certain Red government takeover. Good thing Adobe spearheaded DNG; don't forget to convert your RAW files!

 

[Bob Ross]

Ahh yes...banded cults...I once saw a flock of them by the sea shore flitting around snapping at each other

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Ahh yes...banded cults...I once saw a flock of them by the sea shore flitting around snapping at each other

Were these seagulls, or Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue guys?

 

[VictorM.]

More from Bill Pierce: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0702/pierce.html

 

[jaapv]

Thanks; the voice of reason.