Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The GF-1 with 20mm pancake is pocketable in a jacket pocket. Few cameras are pocketable in a pants pocket unless you consider a cellphone a camera--I do not. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Its truly ironic for this to happen to the Olympus company as with > Yoshihisa > Maitani's, OM1 it shifted the Paradigm of what you're holding in your > hands > and clicking with when you were not using a Leica M but a more by then > commonly used SLR. A bloated Canon F1 or Nikon F or F2 in the early 1970's. > > That the heirs of Yoshihisa Maitani were not able to figure this out is > nothing short of amazing. A lat of foresight in management no doubt. > > I can see the micro 4/3's format still being viable if they can get > somebody > to make a truly compact camera to reflect that. > As in pocketable. As in your pants pocket. > > As sensor technology gets better the reason for them to be as big gets > smaller and smaller. > > The 4/3's format in 5 years will be viewed as using 35mm film in the > 1940's. > > > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:20:18 +0100 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT : Some 4/3 (not MFT) users might want to sign >> this. >> >> I am afraid it is too late. People have voted with their pockets, and >> that is >> what matters rather more at Olympus than an internet petition from Italy. >> And >> to be honest, even though I liked the E3, it is a fair criticism that the >> 4/3 >> format never fulfilled its promise of smaller, lighter cameras and lenses >> in >> exchange for the smaller sensor. MFT, on the other hand, does fulfill that >> promise and has some excellent lenses to boot (like the 20mm pancake). >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:19 PM, <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote: >> >>> http://www.photocommunity.qtp.it/petition/index.php >>> >>> >>> Ph >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >