Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DMC-FZ3 Shutter priority but no shutter speed dial? Jim Mark Rabiner wrote: > Leica seems to have sold it's optical soul to the Panasonic Devil. > > I can see how they may have driven Panasonic crazy with it's amazing retro > demands on the design of the Digilux 2. > "What!? A shudder speed dial!!! It's inconceivable!" > > And they gave them the rights to also come out with their own cheaper sans > red dot version with full point and shoot mindless mentality. > Instead of shutter speeds you get mindless modes. > > And then Panasonic came out with another version of the cameras but still > with a gorgeous piece of Leica glass on the front. > > And then another version and more Leica glass. > > And none of these variations with a classier more hands on Leica version. > > But yesterday or the day before they have even a newer one. > The Cozy Lumix DMC-FZ3 > > For chump change. 300 bucks and an gorgeous Leica lens on the the front. > For the price of a lens cap you can use a I'm sure a wonder of Leica optics > to shoot digital pictures. > Leica DC Vario-Elmarit zoom 35 - 420mm equiv. > the thing zooms and then zooms some more. > And then when its done zooming it zooms some more. > F2.8 non variable > > No shutter speeds though. > Modes. > Smaller files. Smaller body. > Scintillating silver. God those silver cameras are ugly. > A big fat impressive lens shade like the other Lumixxxxes > > Image stabilizer. Which the Digilux 2 ain't got. > > What got me the most were the modes: > > Auto > Program > Aperture Priority > Shutter Priority > Manual > Macro > Portrait > Scenery > Sports > Panning > Fireworks > Party > Snow > Night Portrait > Night Scenery > Simple Mode > > Did they forget anything? > How about > > Giving birth > Opening presents under Christmas - Hanukah tree - bush. > Fun with the wife > Black cat in the coal mine at midnight. > The shiny side of Mercury. (on the way to the sun) > Backyard tree > Peace march > Helmut Newton > Slip and slide action study. > > Program your own. > > Naturally a small knowledge of photography and a variable program mode and > the modes are in your fuzzy brain. The one in your scull. I always try to > have my brain working when I'm shooting photographs; keeps me awake. > > A Leica fan for 3-4 hundred bucks you are loosing money not getting this > camera. > > Which is more of a Leica if the body were made by Leica and the lens were > made by Panasonic. > > If you ask me. > > All kinds of shiny silver camera out their with a big fat > LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT ZOOM emblazed in front of the lens. > > Is Leica getting any of this money? Maybe it is. > > > > > > > > > > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >