Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/18/07 4:40 PM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> typed: > Hi Felix, I tried an E510 this week in a shop and was pleasantly > surprised by the viewfinder brightness. The frame was a bit small - > but the focusing screen is a bit small of course. > I was very impressed. > Frank > > On 18 Jul, 2007, at 15:20, Felix Lopez de Maturana wrote: > >> Only the finder is no very good. > Is it roughly the same size camera body as a Nikon D40 or comparable Canon e Rebel XT and Xti but with a 2x mag instead of 1.5? Half the sensor size in other words? Or is it it bigger camera body than those cameras? So far all the 4/3's camera have been bigger than the smallest APS-C format cameras. They are giving the specs in millimeters on the Olympus so you can't do a direct comparison against the inches Nikon and Canon gives. Only your larger inkjets will know for sure. Larger than letter-sized perhaps. The quality the larger sensor size would give you that is or smaller. I think I'll write a letter on a picture-sized piece of paper. If the Olympus FT had come out and was the same size or bigger than an OM1 (which I know did come out a bit later) would anyone have bought a bigger camera which put out a smaller sized neg? As if Yoshihisa Maitani would let such a thing happen in the first place. http://www.geocities.com/maitani_fan2/talk_maitani.html " Mr. Maitani told "I did not care too much about cameras. I just wanted to take pictures. I became a camera designer by chance instead of a professional photographer. The most important thing for me was taking pictures as I wanted. No camera at all is my ideal." Mark William Rabiner Harlem, NY rabinergroup.com