Puts' view on the M9...and M's past and future

[rosuna]

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Hehe... you are right Howard. I think "Google" as a typo for "Goggle" too...

[Chris_R]

Not the easiest read but a very good one, probably his best. At least no graphs.

 

Cheers

Chris

[frasier]

Goodness my eyes are sore. If one is to create a blog, this is the perfect way not to do it.

 

Hi there,

 

you should try "READABILITY" ... have a look here: Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment

 

Very easy to use and only 2 seconds to set up. No installation or whatsoever. Give it a try

 

Jochen

[LuxBob]

Doesn't Puts yet again repeat the Leica Mantra?

At one time there were no electronics on aircraft but I now understand that avionics cost 30% of the price and rising. A Hercules of 30 years ago looks much like a Hercules of today but there is a big difference in content.

Leica could once happily produce bodies and lenses. They are good at that and maintaing their philospophy in this area while keeping it reasonably up to date is probably not difficult for them. Their problem is that while film media was provided by third party specialists, they now have to design and build the electronic equivalent themselves.. This is a highly specialised area and they seem to have finally adapted well. Problem is it puts the costs up enormously. Not only that, the lifetime in the market is inevitably limited. So you have a traditional market place which maybe we could say Mr. Puts represents and the question is, 'Is that enough to finance continued profitable development of the M?' If so the conservative tradition will likely continue.

If not, Leica has at one end the X1 and at the other the S2 both of them probably serving as a base to build more popular platforms, albeit with some price adjustment.

Leica is a business, its survival so far is laudable but I suspect that it has to make some tough decisions about its market, if it wishes to have a long term future.

Its cost base, I would suspect, is a CFO's nightmare and it would not surprise me if there are a lot of 'meaningful' discussions between the devlopment engineers and the financial people.

To me this seems like a classic case of a small manufacturer committed to too many small output but highly expensive product lines, desperately in need of rationalisation and not a question of how the rangefinder mechanism should work.

[rob3rt5]

Speaking of Magnum in Motion...(before I'm accused of loosing my mind: Puts mentioned them beneath the article sited at the first and so... the segue way)

 

Does anyone know of other sources of really great multimedia black and white photo essays with sound.

About a year ago I saw a site that featured several documentaries shot in black and white stills accompanied by subject commentary. One was about wounded Iraq war soldiers another was about transexual/ transvestite prostitutes in South America. Yet anotherl was about a race track closing and what this meant to the artist and his subjects. All of these projects were inspirational and I'd love to show them to other people. They were, in thier own way, as good as Magnum in Motion pieces.

If anyone knows about these works and where I can find them on the net I would very much appreciate the link.

 

If you have Not heard of Magnum in Motion please check it out. It might just inspire many of you to use this wonderful camera in a whole new way. Imagine shooting frame after frame and capturing sound bites to use as a means to pull the viewer into your photo essays- wonderful stuff. Mixed media rocks.

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com