going Digital

[cosmonaut]

I am a newbie to the Rangefider world and currently use a Canon QL-17, but would love to go digital without breaking the bank. Is a Leica M3 4MP camera a good enough camera for street photography? My QL-17 film scans are probably less than 4MP...
Cosmo

 

[cosmonaut]

This one is the one I was refering to. But the more I read the less I like...
Cosmo
http://www.amazon.com/Minox-Digital-Classic-Camera-Minoctar/dp/B000639MX2

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Leica MP 4MP? Nope. It's not a digital camera and will break your bank.

In addition to the recently issued M8, the Leica digital offers are called Digilux and... something else I can't recall. There's also the Leica V-Lux and the Panasonic Lumix, which share a Leica Vario-Elmarit lens and can still break the bank.

But, sorry, that M3 4MP won't do. In fact, I don't even know if it exists.

Have fun shopping! 🙂

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I see!!

Has pretty bad write-ups. Don't buy it. Image quality is very low. Good value as conversation piece but otherwise... not worth it.

I know because I was thinking about bridging the digital gap with one.

Take care! 🙂

 

[cosmonaut]

Thanks for the responce. The more I read about it the more I realized it was more toy than camera. To bad I would love a digital rangefinder.
Cosmo

 

[Davor]

Yes, he must have been thinking of the Minox toy-cam.

 

[Socke]

I wouldn't call it a toy, it's more a functional miniature model 🙂
At least it can do more than a Revell McLaren SLR.

 

[Bailey]

I have also thought a little about getting something digital as a practical pocket camera. But I'd still like it to have some manual controls (or something faking it). Anybody have any suggestions for cameras that are still fun to use and don't feel like little toy gadgets.

Here are some that I've thought about, but never actually seen or used:

http://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-GR-Digital-Elegant-Camera/dp/B000EF2KUO/sr=1-1/qid=1170588422/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5602856-8985400?ie=UTF8&s=photo

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GHULTM/ref=pd_cp_p_title/103-5602856-8985400

http://www.amazon.com/LEICA-CAMERA-Megapixel-Digital-Camera/dp/B000CEAMRK/sr=1-2/qid=1170588422/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5602856-8985400?ie=UTF8&s=photo

Thanks.

 

[borismach]

I have also thought a little about getting something digital as a practical pocket camera. But I'd still like it to have some manual controls (or something faking it). Anybody have any suggestions for cameras that are still fun to use and don't feel like little toy gadgets.

Here are some that I've thought about, but never actually seen or used:

http://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-GR-Digital-Elegant-Camera/dp/B000EF2KUO/sr=1-1/qid=1170588422/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5602856-8985400?ie=UTF8&s=photo

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GHULTM/ref=pd_cp_p_title/103-5602856-8985400

http://www.amazon.com/LEICA-CAMERA-Megapixel-Digital-Camera/dp/B000CEAMRK/sr=1-2/qid=1170588422/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5602856-8985400?ie=UTF8&s=photo

Thanks.

I'd vote for GR-D. It fits Leica users who familar to use fixed focal length lens. The short-coming for this camera is its age. It has been in the market for more than a year.
🙂 bm

 

[nightfly]

What are you scanning your negatives at that your scans are less than 4mp?

I scan my 35mm negatives at 4800 dpi and get like 50 meg images. When I re-size down to 300 dpi, I still can print at something like 18" x 22" with no interpolation. A full frame 35mm scan should have a ton of information in it. Probably more than anything but a full frame sensor DSLR or medium format digital camera. My 120 scans are over 100 megs. Very slow to work with but they print beautifully.

After a lot of research about digital, I just bought a Ricoh GR-Digitial mostly to just see if I can work with it. The thing that sold me on it besides a good, non zoom lens was that the way the camera processes images with very little internal noise reduction and processing, the images are supposed to look more like film than the typical hyper real digitally look in most small sensor cameras. We'll see.

Hope that helps.

 

[zuikologist]

I think ywenz has produced some excellent shots with the GRD (some even at 800 ISO) and shown some here on RFF. They may still be in the old threads.