Not a rant, just an observation. WE went to a private art show Sunday afternoon and I carried my Leica M6. Sat at a table talking over a glass of wine, and people carrying multi-hundred dollar DSLRs would walk by and remark "Now that's a camera!"
Sue went to Namibia several years ago on a photo tour. All the others had rushed out and spent hundreds buying the best DSLRs they could find, and what they found was they couldn't use them without the manual. These cameras are so automatic that it is nearly imposiible to take a photo of an animal through the branches of a nearby tree without the auto-focus grabbing onto the branches! Not a problem with the manual focus on the M6.
DSLRs are very noisy. If Sue could get the first shot with her M6 (a rangefinder, very quiet) it was great, but as soon as the auto-everything cameras fired up, including the IR focus, the animals turned tail. This resulted in numerous "butts of Africa" photos.
Digital has a place in journalism, but has problems with wild life!
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