Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Panasonic DMC-FZ10 with Vario-Elmarit lens
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:01:33 -0500

Mark,
Over on the Luminous Landscape site they have done a comparison of
medium format backs.  The basic premise is that the larger sensor is
better than the one on the 1Ds but that you needed a dedicated body
combination to take advantage of the digital back.  So, all the Hassy
gear is being turned in because the various bodies don't deal well with
one shot backs.  This is why the deal with Fuji went through, to have a
dedicated back.

Another answer is the classic, it's good enough.  A third answer is that
it is now a digital file you are selling so the art director can't get
all hissy over wanting a certain size transparency on the light table.

Don
dorysrus@mindsprig.com

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Mark
Rabiner
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 1:22 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Panasonic DMC-FZ10 with Vario-Elmarit lens

Frank Dernie wrote:
> 
> I would expect the performance to be limited by the sensor size - it
> has the really minute one about 4x6mm half the size of my little
> fingernail, probably to keep cost and size down. IME the size of the
> sensor is as important in digital cameras as in film for overall
> quality.
> cheers
> Frank
> 
><Snip> 

We've seen these pictures of a photographer on a bluff with a view
camera and a 4x5 digital back back to fit it and a laptop and we assume
they are getting better images than we are.
But why are the Hasselblads being dropped like lemmings going over the
cliff filling up the used glass cases in the camera stores?
"My digital photography with my Nikon/Canon body is so good anyway!"
they all say.

Would it be even better if it was "medium format' digital photography
I've got to ask.
Would the law of bigger the better film/sensor acrerage not exist
between the 35mm sensor sizes and the medium format sensor sizes? Like
it does with film?

I'm sure it does and am looking forward to doing some "medium format"
digital photography and plan on holding on to my Hasselblads. The old
fashioned square kind made by Swedes mainly. With those inconsequential
Zeiss lenses.

Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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