Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] Easy decisions for M9 or not
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:21:55 +0200
References: <C702D27E.56CC3%mark@rabinergroup.com>

See, y'all? Mark and I agree on something w.r.t. the M9!!!

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Oct 20, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Which means that the M9 is no improvement on the M8 in this sense-- 
>> its
>> pixel density is just as high.
>>
>> Nathan
>
> You're right Nathan its bad news that the pixel pitch (size in  
> microns) is
> 6.8 ?m pixel pitch with both the m8 and m9.
> As the glow wears off this is going to near ruin the party.
> The Leica M9 does not need to have super camera (Nikon D3x) specs.
> It needs to be a shooting persons camera and have a lower pitch.
> For higher signal-to-noise ratio and exceptionally wide dynamic range,
> It has to be a Leica. Something which will get people to put down  
> their high
> iso shooting full frame DSLR's and use it instead because its got  
> way better
> glass and is a rangefinder camera.
>
>
> So this 12 mp camera has to come out as I've been saying
> With ISO's on the dial hitting close to the 100,000 digital mark.
> Do they call that 5 digits or 6?
> 5 zeros I guess.
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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