Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]IF the various folks involved with the 4/3 system can increase the pixel counts and reduce the noise - and the new Oly330/Panasonic whatever suggests just maybe they can, 4/3 will indeed prove to be viable. If they can't - it won't. Period. On 2/26/06 7:03 PM, "Colin J" <smcj35@yahoo.com> wrote: > Steven A. Melnyk" wrote: > <snip> >> In short, I am not convinced of the long term >> validity of the 4/3 >> standard. I am not sure that Leica does itself >> any benefit by >> aligning itself with this standard. Past >> history tells us that when >> there are several standards, only one or two >> will emerge as the >> dominate standard. In a world dominated by >> Canon and Nikon, I am not >> sure of the long term viability of this >> standard. I may be wrong but >> history would argue against the 4/3 standard. > > > About 80 years ago, when the "standard" was 4x5 > inches or larger, along came an innovator who > proposed a much smaller format, using a film that > was a mere 35mm wide. > > In a world dominated by larger formats, a great > many people were not sure of the long term > viability of this new 35mm standard. They also > probably thought that history would argue against > 35mm. > > Like Steven, I am a "4/3 skeptic", to the extent > that I sold my Olympus E-1 and three lenses and > bought a Canon EOS 5D and some EF glass. 12.8 MP > and low noise was too hard to resist, and 5 MP > and a lot of noise was too hard to keep. > > However, the lesson of history is surely that it > is too soon to write the epitaph of the 4/3 > standard just yet. We should wait and see. 4/3 > may yet be "the new 35mm", and it is good to see > that Leica will be involved. > > Colin > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars > online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information