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New Digital Leica and my puny G3 iBook
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Am about to indulge in a Leica D-Lux 2.
I am a keen photographer and I've used an old manual SLR for yonks but I'm new to digital.
The Leica connects by USB (2 I guess) - will this make things painfully slow on my 2003 iBook which is 800MHz, 640MB RAM and I think has USB 1.1?
Thanks.
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That depends...
What's your threshold for pain?
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Well, it can take me ages to get a perfect print in the darkroom - and I know my iBook is not that zippy when I'm editing colour scans from negatives in Photoshop - so I'm not expecting miracles. But would transfer of raw files be just too slow to be workable? I'm busting the bank on the camera so a G4/G5 machine ain't on the cards unfortunately.
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Depending on the size of your RAW files, you should probably expect something like 40-90 seconds per image.
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Your going to buy a new Leica professional digital camera, but don't find it important enough to use a computer that doesn't suck? Buy a new computer, then a new camera. What a waste.
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Originally Posted by inkhead
Your going to buy a new Leica professional digital camera, but don't find it important enough to use a computer that doesn't suck? Buy a new computer, then a new camera. What a waste.
Steady on mate - no need to get shirty. As a newcomer to digital (though by no means to photography per se) perhaps I have underestimated the processor power I'll need for the camera I want.
The D-Lux 2 is not a professional camera and as to my iBook sucking, well it may not pack that much of a punch (indeed by 2005 standards it is 'puny' by my own admission) but it has served me well over the last couple of years.
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I own the Panasonic LX-1 camera which is almost identical to the Leica. It is *not* USB 2 and I'm sure the Leica isn't either. (To be correct: both are USB 2 but don't support the high speed mode)
Buy a FireWire Card reader. That's the cheapest and fastest solution.
Oh and by the way: go for the LX-1 and save your money. The Leica is way overpriced. It's essentially the same camera as the LX-1.
And since you mentioned you're new to digital photography: don't expect wonders from raw.In most cases a jpeg will do equally well.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Sometimes people do get a little shirty around here, don't they?
Your iBook is fine!... get a firewire card reader, move on.
That Leica ticks all the boxes.
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Originally Posted by MichiganRich
Sometimes people do get a little shirty around here, don't they?
Your iBook is fine!... get a firewire card reader, move on.
That Leica ticks all the boxes.
A firewire card reader will do the trick nicely. I never connect my DSLR directly to the computer as I have a PCMCIA CF adapter. Pay no attention to the posters telling you to get a new computer or a different camera. It's your money, do what you want w/ it.
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Originally Posted by vinster
Pay no attention to the posters telling you to get a different camera.
yeah...but if that poster was the first to propose a FW card reader do it nevertheless... 
The D-Lux 2 and the Panasonic LX-1 are nearly identical. See here: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05...leicadlux2.asp
Save that 300$.
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