{"id":129,"date":"2006-05-07T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=129"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:51:04","slug":"the-designer-as-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/05\/07\/the-designer-as-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The designer as star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It&#8217;s great to see the designers of innovative producets credited<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Panasonic will soon release their L1 interchangeable lens SLR to market.  The camera is notable for a couple of things.  First, there&#8217;s the compact Leica M &#8216;look&#8217;, owing to the flat top, the result of using a mirror and prism design pioneered by Olympus in the brilliant Pen F half frame some thirty years ago.  Second, the continuation of the Panasonic-Leica collaboration with the Panasonic vibration reduction system integrated into the &#8216;standard&#8217; Leica zoom lens.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I remember this sort of thing was when the inspired designer of the jewel-like Olympus Pen F and OM1 cameras, Yoshihisa Maitani, was featured prominently in advertisements, also some thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/maitani.jpg\" width=\"501\" height=\"436\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Maitani.<\/i><\/center\n\nThis will probably be the 'Digital M' for most Leica aficionados as the lens+body pair will list for $2,000 compared with a rumored $5,000 for the Digital M body alone.  And with modern autofocus, no one needs the heretofore superiority of rangefinder focusing any more.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see the designers of innovative producets credited Panasonic will soon release their L1 interchangeable lens SLR to market. The camera is notable for a couple of things. First, there&#8217;s the compact Leica M &#8216;look&#8217;, owing to the flat top, the result of using a mirror and prism design pioneered by Olympus in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/05\/07\/the-designer-as-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The designer as star<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30474,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/30474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}