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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:01:57 -0700
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Don't try to drag me into this Richard, especially with Ms.Tina!
BTW, I sold my 24TS-E II (the I was a horror) to help fund my MF system...

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

> BTW Tina, I am not doubting your experience, but do you know that some
> people put the wide, especially the 24 TS-E on MEDIUM format back? Even
> with
> shift?
>
> http://www.hartblei.de/en/hartbleicam2.htm
>
> I want one of those, then I could kick sand at Bob :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > That's my issue with Canon lenses.  Awful purple fringing on every wide
> > angle shot.  Not to mention problems with auto-focus that make manual
> focus
> > much faster and loss of detail because of the AA filter.  Nobody on the
> > stock lists believes me when I talk about how much better Leica lenses
> are.
> >  Nobody cares.  Canon is good enough, I guess.  Not for me.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > From: Chris Williams <zoeica at mac.com>
> > >
> > > > Yes true but this thing is made for AF and brags about it when Canon
> > has
> > > had many known
> > > > AF issues lately.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yup.  Gonna wait for the Canon 1D-Xn with All New Focusing AutoFocus
> > > Action.  And then buy Zeiss glass.  For newspaper the fact that every
> > > highlight is fringed purple isn't a huge issue.  For the web, nobody
> > > notices.  For real work... umm... guys?
> > >
> > >
> > > R. Clayton McKee
> > > PhotoJournalist
> > > from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> > >
> > >
> > > >________________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Leica Users Group.
> > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> >
>
>
>
> --
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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>



-- 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com


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