[Leica] Re: Rebadged 4/3 lenses

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Well I'll defer to a user on that. I've largely used manual focus primes on 
almost all of my cameras. Those four thirds fellows just
seem to have high BMI's when seen on some of the more compact bodies.

Cheers
Hoppy  

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
B. D. Colen
Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:47
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Rebadged 4/3 lenses

But Hoppy, most of the lenses are, in fact, compact compared to standard SLR
lenses; they're not at all compact compared to Leica M lenses.


On 10/18/06 10:26 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Larry, Leica has already announced its version of the Panasonic L1, being 
> the
> Digilux 3. My personal view is that this is
> unattractive compared to the M8, for a Leica user. Of course as part of the
> four thirds group it's reasonable to have a body within
> their range, just that it seems to have been made redundant by the M8, for
> that particular market segment. Still, I suppose sensible
> to have an option should the M8 not be successful in the market place. 
> Without
> meaning to stir a controversy, I'm always puzzled by
> the way that lens system has gone. I mean the physical size (diameter) of 
> the
> lenses for what could otherwise be a compact system. I
> am aware of some of the technical issues there, still it seems odd in
> comparison to the "APS-C" type sensor cameras. Olympus made
> considerable representations when the system was launched regarding 
> starting
> with a clean slate for an SLR system.
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>