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These photos should inspire anybody to take up photography. The elephants, The King, the procession, the Conductor - a lot of sentiment is projected by them all.

What does Japan manufacture? Anything?

No. 1, well it is No. 1 - great! It lives. At first I thought it was taken with a film camera. Has the camera manufacturer's legendary film capability been transferred to digital photography?

Big camera (physically), small sensor (4/3). Why go for it? Olympus was a big name, OM their model. Now? Brand image counts (cannot be denied). Gone the brand!

Photography vs Adobgraphy. The first is the real thing - photons strike film or sensor, and these two together with the printing process or sensor to screen processing produce what the eye sees....

28mm -->> 50mm --->>> 90mm equivalent lenses. In a smartphone? Why not? They can do it. When there is will, there is a way.

14mm -->> 23mm ----->>>> 75mm equivalent lenses! Great! Wait for reason at some future date.

f0.95! 50mm equiv.! $200-! Silly children's toys can cost more. What arguments can there be about this lens? Not made from titanium? Plastic? Using it for fun - for a while, at least - would...

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Has Leica done a rainbow ed. yet?

Here is a special ed. Leica Q2 in the works: interchangeable lens camera, with manual controls of ISO, exp. compensation, shutter speed. To fantasise - one is allowed always.

Unusable in a few years? Why? Windows dinosaur XP is still used by millions. So will Android 12 be used for many years by those who do not want to sign new mobile contracts every other year.

What is the Leica-phobia all about? Not just in connection with Phone 2 but, in general? Expensive? Leica was expensive 70 years ago too. RR is expensive. And? The market is full with quality stuff.

35mm FF equivalent - is that super-wide?

Is the Leica identical to Sharp? It is not because of the photo tech, and this is what distinguishes the top phones from each other, the rest being almost identical. Leica may have used Sharp, but...

FF, this, that and the other - the demands non-ending. At $1200 the body (don't care about retro? Go elsewhere - actually, it is a nice design), then a reasonable selection of Z-mounts (who is...

Blurred backgrounds from old or new lenses - problematic? People don't like the patterns appearing? Modern digital photography, supposed to be "advanced photography" (who cares about the NatGeo...

Vintage at $4K + !? Well the replica brand new from the same house at $3.9K is a good buy.

At 2.5% compound. This M6 at $5.3K + Summilux 50mm 1.4 at $4.5K becomes $9.8K. A lot!

Get Kodachrome (cost includes processing), expose giving the utmost attention to the composition and settings (36 frames only), post it to Kodak in their envelope, get the transparencies back...