Ray Kilby
Established
If the site is down, you can view this mythical beast here.
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/23139/leica-m9/
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/23139/leica-m9/
leica007
Member
Some fast facts from hosting the brochure...
Online since about noon on Saturday. As of right now, it's been downloaded 26,346 times. I've literally lost count of how many links there are to my server on forums around the world... Literally dozens at this point. Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, France, Poland, China, you name it. DPR, POTN, RFF, II, Photo.net, and those are just the mainstream ones. Even now - there are downloads occurring anywhere from every second to every couple of seconds.
Still no word from Leica.
Here's the traffic spike:
that's great.
NOW GIVE ME - the 007 of the Leica World - SOME CREDIT FOR THIS !
fgianni
Trainee Amateur
user237428934
User deletion pending
Just in the last hour since posting this, some 450 more have been downloaded. Not a bad clip.
If Leica sells this many M9s, they'll be swimming in cash in no time.
How many downloads would you count if you charged 50ct for it? 100? 250? Of course there are so many interested just because it's new and free.
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Or like me they downloaded it a couple of times because they didn't bother to save it and just wanted to look at a particular page again. The joys and laziness of highspeed internet
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
I take it you don't pay for your bandwidth.
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Well then who am I to complain.
namelast
Member
Ok, Germans DO have a sense of humour!
Check the last twitter from Leica... http://twitter.com/leica_camera
Now I wonder if really the leaked brochure was unintentional or not... and of course I wonder what is that we do not know (pricing aside). I hope not another delusion-Pradovit-whocares!
Check the last twitter from Leica... http://twitter.com/leica_camera
Now I wonder if really the leaked brochure was unintentional or not... and of course I wonder what is that we do not know (pricing aside). I hope not another delusion-Pradovit-whocares!
user237428934
User deletion pending
I think it was a leak and now they hope that still enough people will attend the webcast. And that something that we still don't know about must be the tool for amateurs they talked about in the video.
namelast
Member
Yeah,they might being covering up.
But we already know about the X1...
But we already know about the X1...
aniMal
Well-known
Seems to me that the leak, intentional or not, actually has made sure that more people will follow the release tomorrow...
Ken Shipman
Well-known
I'm hoping they include a word about the digital R plans. Haven't seen anything about that yet, so it could possibly be their little undisclosed secret.
Thardy
Veteran
All I can say is. I want one.
So far we're up to 45,856 downloads - and counting...
How many are coming from RFF and how many from Ken Rockwell?
RFluhver
Well-known
And now even Hitler wants his M9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDWeAHd6D6w
amateriat
We're all light!
Mario Alessi
Newbie
Digital vs Analog
Digital vs Analog
Whats interesting to me is how the old is continuously threatened by the new. What happened to the Mentor/Apprentice relationship where the Mentor imparted wisdom and experience, and the apprentice imparted excitement, new ideas, and new creativity?
In the fine-art world you get people claiming that gi-clee isnt real art, and digital prints arn't real etc...
Perhaps all the "real artist" are so real after all. I mean isn't the "real-artist" out finding a cave, killing an animal, making his own blood paint, and painting on the cave wall?
The same argument could be applied to music. All the people that claim synthesizers, and electronic drums, and digital pianos are not real instruments. Well I ask those people, I dont see them going out and killing an animal, stretching the skin over a turtle shell, and making a "real-drum" And what about all the "real-musicians" who play in bands. Isn't a band just a cheap imitation of full orchestra? I mean you cant get the full, true sound, unless you have all those instruments, and a conductor, and musicians.
And perhaps the the transportation neophytes are just as angry that no longer are horseshoes needed or used by the masses, instead we by tires, and have them put on our wheel with a machine. How dare they not be a hand attached shoe to the hoof of a horse for "real-transportation"
ANd all those who claim but a real musician must have talent, an electronic band just pushes a button. Well its funny that those people seem to complain how they cant type very well, or they cant see very well, or they cant operate the keys on the phone to text message very well. How about the youth that some how can learn how to type pretty fast on a small phone keypad.
I would suffice to say that learning to type and operate a computer takes skill just as "playing a real-instrument" and guess what perhaps it takes more brain power to use these "new-digital" cameras. Because in digital the methods of obtaining the best image are improving at a faster pace than the methods for traditional darkroom printing.
I would bet that most of our supposed agitation to digital is the reminder that at some point we all adapt, or we become irrelevant in society. And at some point we die, and unless pour work survives, we are no longer remembered either.
If I die tomorrow, at least i looked at the moon with my simple 75mm lens. Perhaps my neighbor is complaining i'm not using a 500mm, and perhaps my sister is laughing at all of us cause she looks through a telescope, and perhaps some astronomer somewhere is laughing cuase he has the Hubbell.
Most things exist in a flow where they start off as underground movement and that is a formative phase. Then there is a break-out period and it is used by the masses.
Then it crests and starts to subside in popularity.
It doesnt ever go away, it remains a permanent influence. But starts to become used or liked by less and less people.
Every now and then there may be a renewed popularity or revival.
We are seeing the renewed popularity of rangefinders.
We are in the Break Out phase of digital photography.
We are in the subsiding phase of analog photography.
We are in the subsiding phase of analog development.
The internet has given an unprecedented in the history of mankind, ability for such dissimilar people in background, age, intelligence, manners, race
, ability, etc... To communicate instantly with each other.
If we all had to meet face to face to even argue or discuss or share these things, how many people would like, or even talk to each other.
Unfortunately sometimes, our greatest asset to each other as humans (face to face contact, and experiences face to face) is lost on this impersonal communication.
Many of us are competitors to each other, but we are willing to share and impart information over the internet. Shouldn't we also try to impart common courtesy, and constructive advice, rather than destructive pessimism?
Oh, I wonder how much complaining people will do over the "resolution" or virtual reality or 3d photographs, or brain memory implants, when they finally come out?
Digital vs Analog
Whats interesting to me is how the old is continuously threatened by the new. What happened to the Mentor/Apprentice relationship where the Mentor imparted wisdom and experience, and the apprentice imparted excitement, new ideas, and new creativity?
In the fine-art world you get people claiming that gi-clee isnt real art, and digital prints arn't real etc...
Perhaps all the "real artist" are so real after all. I mean isn't the "real-artist" out finding a cave, killing an animal, making his own blood paint, and painting on the cave wall?
The same argument could be applied to music. All the people that claim synthesizers, and electronic drums, and digital pianos are not real instruments. Well I ask those people, I dont see them going out and killing an animal, stretching the skin over a turtle shell, and making a "real-drum" And what about all the "real-musicians" who play in bands. Isn't a band just a cheap imitation of full orchestra? I mean you cant get the full, true sound, unless you have all those instruments, and a conductor, and musicians.
And perhaps the the transportation neophytes are just as angry that no longer are horseshoes needed or used by the masses, instead we by tires, and have them put on our wheel with a machine. How dare they not be a hand attached shoe to the hoof of a horse for "real-transportation"
ANd all those who claim but a real musician must have talent, an electronic band just pushes a button. Well its funny that those people seem to complain how they cant type very well, or they cant see very well, or they cant operate the keys on the phone to text message very well. How about the youth that some how can learn how to type pretty fast on a small phone keypad.
I would suffice to say that learning to type and operate a computer takes skill just as "playing a real-instrument" and guess what perhaps it takes more brain power to use these "new-digital" cameras. Because in digital the methods of obtaining the best image are improving at a faster pace than the methods for traditional darkroom printing.
I would bet that most of our supposed agitation to digital is the reminder that at some point we all adapt, or we become irrelevant in society. And at some point we die, and unless pour work survives, we are no longer remembered either.
If I die tomorrow, at least i looked at the moon with my simple 75mm lens. Perhaps my neighbor is complaining i'm not using a 500mm, and perhaps my sister is laughing at all of us cause she looks through a telescope, and perhaps some astronomer somewhere is laughing cuase he has the Hubbell.
Most things exist in a flow where they start off as underground movement and that is a formative phase. Then there is a break-out period and it is used by the masses.
Then it crests and starts to subside in popularity.
It doesnt ever go away, it remains a permanent influence. But starts to become used or liked by less and less people.
Every now and then there may be a renewed popularity or revival.
We are seeing the renewed popularity of rangefinders.
We are in the Break Out phase of digital photography.
We are in the subsiding phase of analog photography.
We are in the subsiding phase of analog development.
The internet has given an unprecedented in the history of mankind, ability for such dissimilar people in background, age, intelligence, manners, race
, ability, etc... To communicate instantly with each other.
If we all had to meet face to face to even argue or discuss or share these things, how many people would like, or even talk to each other.
Unfortunately sometimes, our greatest asset to each other as humans (face to face contact, and experiences face to face) is lost on this impersonal communication.
Many of us are competitors to each other, but we are willing to share and impart information over the internet. Shouldn't we also try to impart common courtesy, and constructive advice, rather than destructive pessimism?
Oh, I wonder how much complaining people will do over the "resolution" or virtual reality or 3d photographs, or brain memory implants, when they finally come out?
