[Leica] Review of Fuji's new X-E1 with zoom lens.

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

"Against ignorance (and Confirmation Bias), the Gods themselves contend in
vain" - with apologies to Friedrich Schiller (-:

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Because when sensor technology gets better it raises the bar on the results
> we get. No one sees it as a reason to not justify being able to now buy
> cheap cameras..
> We get now get better results from our Leica M and latest flagship cameras
> from Canon and Nikon.  Serious photographers and top pros are not going
> "now
> I can shoot with a smaller sensor"  and stick with the results they got
> five
> years ago they are going "not I can get better results"
>
> There is no movement for pros to be shooting with 1.5x crop or any other
> crop camera. The predominance of full frame cameras for top pro and serious
> amateur work is now even more so..
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
> > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:10:06 -0800
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Review of Fuji's new X-E1 with zoom lens.
> >
> > 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>
> >
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