ferensen

I use HP DAT drives and they are very reliable. But you must also use good backup software together with tape rotation sets. You cannot rely on one single tape for a given file(s). The software and drives monitor tape condition, file locations, and backup generations. Great for an office network, servers, etc. but probably less so for simply backing up image files from a single PC.

Heat for sure. Also, I use the same lens but never with a filter. That's just asking for trouble.

(from Leica web site, warning, their English translation is weak)

 

In fiscal year 2003/2004, Leica Camera Group had to cope with a 17.4% sales decline.

 

The 17.4% sales decline to ? 119.1 million is also due to the effect of external factors. Approximately one quarter of the difference to the previous year?s sales figure results from currency effects of the Euro/US Dollar and Euro/British Pound exchange rates.

While the increasing digitalisation of photography, above all in volume business, leads to sales increases in the industry, it simultaneously causes, at the specialised dealers, substantial losses of margins. The strained financial situation of the dealers leads to a significant reduction in stockpiling of high-quality system cameras and components. Moreover, customers are unnerved by the fights for market share, as well as by the ongoing price slide for digital products. Therefore, a significant portion of the decline in sales of Leica system cameras also reflects distributors? inventory reductions.

On the other hand, sales of binoculars, scopes and rangefinding devices of the Leica sports optics range are developing favourably. The Company?s continuous development of new products is stimulating the business, especially in the hunting and birdwatching hobby segments. The Company was able to achieve 8% growth (currency-adjusted) in this segment.

 

Using technological cooperations, the Company is able to offer attractive digital compact cameras, as well as a hybrid solution for the Leica SLR system. Said solution will unite in one camera body the best digital photography can offer and the well-tried high standard of silver halogenid photography. In just one minute, users will be able to attach the digital camera back to their existing LEICA R8 and R9 cameras, turning these instruments into high-quality digital cameras. The high-quality lenses of the Leica R system will therefore be available for both analogue and digital pictures.

 

In the year under review, the Company has started a project aiming at the development of a digital solution in the Leica rangefinder camera system. Product presentation is expected to be held in the spring of 2006. (No sense rushing these things.)

 

source: http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/presse/data/03904/index_e.html

Rose web page: http://www.charlierose.com/index.shtm

Charlie Rose show to rerun Cartier-Bresson interview tonight,

midnight on the West coast.

Try REI if the camera stores can't accommodate your size. Selection is large but you'll need to "customize" the inside.

Go digital. Don't give it a second thought. You will take lots more pictures.

Very slow. Had to send in the forms twice.

Jim, nice shot. I use the same camera, lens combination. Some recent shots at:

http://www.pbase.com/ferensen/bird_walks&page=all

Competition, ain't it wonderful...on the wallet.

Avedon's fashion work in the 1950s-60s was remarkable, the later portraits much less so.

Canon's site has a pdf of the manual.

A July 22 N Y Times business page article talked about their future, medical imaging specifically. That's where they're betting big bucks.

Just noticed the following:

http://www.virtualtraveller.org/epson2450.htm