[Leica] Highly Intelligent Crop Factor Overview

[Steve Barbour]

> Mark Rabiner wrote:
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>>> The 1.5 crop factor works out perfectly for people who live with their
> mothers and are shooting the high school newspaper. Though they get no
> respect from the other kids who are shooting real working  pro level
> cameras. Though they may be working after school bussing tables to pay for
> them.


hey Rabs, so called full frame sensors are simply for pros who need them, to think of themselves as pros, when they leave home. You made the leap recently as I recall. Did it make all the difference, as you insist ?


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> On 1/3/15 6:47 AM, "Montie Talbert" <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Agree with both, that really is the issue, I think, with 35mm shooters
>> who have been around photography awhile and have collected a boat load
>> of lenses. The 1.5 crop factor sensor state of the art seems to be 
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>> sufficient for a lot shooters, including many who make their living at it.
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>> Montie
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>>>> I'm with you, Sonny. As I keep saying, my main reason for wanting to
>> upgrade from my M8 to a full-frame digital Leica is so that I can use my
>> 50mm lenses as 50s again.  I'm waiting for some sense of how the M9-family
>> sensor delamination issue shakes out in real life before I make the leap.
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>> --Peter
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>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
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>>> Everything he says is OK, except for me the issue about "full frame" is
>>> that I have this drawerful of lenses designed for that format.
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>>> I was unhappy using Leica lenses on 4/3, m4/3, and the Leica M8 because
>>> (for example) my summicron 35 was no longer the same animal.
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>>> Don't get me wrong, I was perfectly happy shooting my olympus m4/3 with
>>> native lenses; loved the little camera, in fact.  Same with the apc Pentax
>>> Kr with those great primes.
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>>> When I swapped the M8 for the M9, I was back home, and now have
>>> supplemented that with the A7s, so I'm happily shooting with lenses I
>>> haven't used in years.
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>>> Sorry, don't ask me to test, I just put the lens on the camera and go see
>>> what I can do with it,  if I like it, you'll get to see it, I promise.
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On Jan 1, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Montie <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>> ;-)
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>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYidejT3KY
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>>>> Montie
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