In 1979 I worked as an assistant at a small studio. Making colour prints was one of my duties. I can tell you with absolute authority that a print made on Kodak Ektaprint 2 paper from a C41 processed Kodak VPS negative that came out of a Leica M5 was inferior to the product of a 2MP point @ shoot in 2002. My conclusion therefore is that analogue Leicas no longer had a reason to exist 10 years ago, therefore they are no better than scrap metal. Anyone who possesses one of these wastes of resources is welcome to send it my way, and I'll dispose of it in the most environmentally sensitive way possible.
regards, Anthony On 14 December 2012 19:09, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: > J.C.O. is entirely right. Once superseded by another model, the 645D will > stop taking pictures on any ISO other than 140, force JPG format, and > introduce a lag of 30 seconds before writing exposures to card. During that > lag, you will see a message on the chimp screen explaining what you have to > do to re-enable the camera's functionality. For unknown reasons, this message > will only appear in the language used by the Inuits of North-East Greenland, > who refuse to translate because they find the text offensive. > > The next model will be a lot better. Among its most important achievents will > be abandoning the hopelessly inaccurate way of relaying aperture information > between camera and optics using a simple lever. According to Pentax > officials, that's on par with steam engines for obsolence, and they are > deeply ashamed about it still being there, despite their best efforts to move > forward. > > Just FYI, you know, like, :-) > > Cheers, > Jostein > > "J.C. O'Connell" <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > >>And presto, you have a $10K obsolete piece o crap original 645D. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
