Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Olympus have just started sponsoring Ferrari and have had pre production cameras at races since the Canadian GP. I know the photographer who has been using one (he uses M6s for his non motor racing work) and I had a play with it at Silverstone this weekend he says the results are astounding but I was disappointed by the size of the body - I had expected something much smaller. The 50-200 zoom (100-400 equivalent) seemed no smaller than a 35mm lens of the same focal length despite the smaller "film" size - perhaps because of the coverage issue in their bumf. Frank > Jim Laurel agreed > > Right on, Henning! We need another Maitani to bring some sanity to the > market. Am I the only one that thinks a compact professional digicam > is a > great idea? And no, the Olympus E thing doesn't qualify. I had high > hopes > that it would be much more compact. Even wondered if they'd brought > Maitani > back in a consulting role. But the E doesn't seem much smaller than > the > Canon 10D. The market is polarized between behemoths that can deliver > great > quality and P&S digicams that are a waste of time. > > Gee, I always thought that electronics were supposed to make things > lighter > and more compact. I don't know about you, but I simply cannot travel > with > SLRs as large and heavy as those we now have. More specifically, I > guess, > it's the lenses. As I look in my Canon kit, it's the 70-200 f2.8 IS > USM > that really adds alot of weight. The thing weighs some 2kg! Maybe it > just > seems like the gear has gotten heavier because we expect so much more > than > we did in the OM era. > > - --Jim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html