johnny massey Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Digital is dead ???<p>http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 too bad. i use both the M8 and r-d1s and prefer the latter for many purposes. the epson has much quieter high ISO performance, shows little IR color shift, has a nice 1:1 VF, has a very good user interface with just four buttons and no dreaded thumbwheel, has a moveable (and reversible) LCD screen, has a conventional shutter cocking system, and -- of course -- has the ultra cool analog dials on the top plate. it is a great product that will go down (in my book anyway) as an all-time classic. certainly it will be the only digital with manual advance ever built (unles huw finney cmes thru). the M8 is a much more conventional product (albeit with an M mount) that lacks all of the charm of the r-d1s. in a way, i think the premature demise of the r-d1s only makes the epson camera cooler. just like janis joplin is cooler than stevie nicks or hendrix cooler than clapton. take care, roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtk Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Janis and Jimi are deader than Stevie and Eric...cooler in the cold, cold ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastair_anderson Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'll have to see if I can get hold of one. You've convinced me.However I have to say that by any objective criterion, alive or dead, Hendrix is cooler than Clapton (or anyone else for that matter, including Steve McQueen!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Hendrix is only cooler than Clapton 'cos he's dead... Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'll take Jimi and Stevie over those 'other two.' Dead or alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 uh, robin, dat be my point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Yes I know Roger! Derek: I guess by that you mean you like Stevie Nicks heh heh? Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry thirsty Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Pretty sure Stevie died in a helicopter crash in the early 90's. Seems likely he would have reached ambient temperature by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplumpton Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 What have dead pop stars got to do with a discontinued camera? In any case the M8 is 250 degreees Kelvin (= Centigrade) cooler than anything else out there and Epson may be trying to boost its baby to 10 MP or more before bringing it back. The M8 scores on its detailed reproduction, period. All else is detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 if only Epson were planning to steal Leica's thunder once again by introducing a 36x24 sensor . . . somehow I doubt it.<p>PS There will never be another Jimi Hendrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Err, what ws the question? Oh, yeah. Whether the R-D1 is dead, or if digital is dead? No the R-D1 is not dead. Dead is the wrong word. It is now a classic, like the M3 or original MP. To borrow a phrase often used by Moose Peterson, I'll predict future authors will write, "The R-D1 became much more popular after it was discontinued." It will achieve cult status. And I'll predict it will be back in a new and improved version. The R-D2 will have 7.5 megapixels and a 1.25 crop ratio. It will have framelines for 21, 24/25, 28, 35, and 50mm lenses. I'm buying one tomorrow morning (really). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Maybe I should go and buy one as well (really). I have been waiting for the Sigma DP-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 The R-D1 had a great run. Those of us who have one won't likely be selling them any time soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kivis Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 How do you get service for the RD-1? kivis Cameras, lenses, and fotos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 But seriously, it's basically a Bessa so there are several people who will service it, and Epson also offers factory service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail_mustapha1 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Time to get extra batteries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_kirkwood Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 <i>Pretty sure Stevie died in a helicopter crash in the early 90's.</i></p> Pretty sure that was Stevie Ray Vaughan (who, coolness aside, was a better guitarist than Hendrix or Clapton). Stevie Nicks is very much alive and I don't know if/how much 'work' she's had done on her but she looks better now than Janis Joplin did back then. I still can't figure out what any of Stevie's lyrics mean though.<p><i>What have dead pop stars got to do with a discontinued camera?</i></p>They both get the folks here's juices going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtk Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Hendrix was the only one of the bunch with a voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny massey Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 . . . and ten times as creative as SRV or anyone else for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond_tai Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Rock stars, flying machines, and vomit don't mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesrani Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Frank Zappa was a better guitarist with far wider musical range than any of the above. IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 The battery is the utterly ubiquitous Fuji NP-80 (or clone), perhaps the most common camcorder battery in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Via Ebay i have bought a spare Epson battery; a Fuji battery ; another ac charger; and a charge that runs of the 12volt lighter socket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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