Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, you logic escapes me here - and Mark we'll get you on this ;-) If as you say APS has progressed and can rival with a D700, remember the D7?0 is discontinue; Nikon has since released the DXOO that surpasses the current APS offering ... CQFD Amiti?s Philippe Le 11 nov. 12 ? 21:10, Richard Man a ?crit : > Leica has always been about getting that last 5%. OTOH, for certain > subjects or certain people's way of working, they can't get that 95% > anyway > with Leica, hence the "best camera" won't do squat. > > So... looking at pure "bigger is better" viewpoint, the Sony RX is > very > appealing, since it has a 35mm full frame sensor. However, the sensor > manufacturers have demonstrated that today's sensors can vastly > outperform > even sensors from a generation. i.e. did you think the D700 images > were > great?! Well, now you can get similar quality from an APS sensor and > so on > and so forth. > > So I'm afraid the time for a full frame "compact" has passed. If it > was > released 3 years ago, people would have flocked to it. Now? When you > can > get APS cameras with almost similar quality and other convenience, > what > would be the point? > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information