[Leica] Highly Intelligent Crop Factor Overview
Alan Magayne-Roshak
amr3 at uwmalumni.com
Sun Jan 4 22:41:05 PST 2015
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 Frank Verizon1 <red735i at verizon.net>wrote:
>Smaller format sensors can use smaller lenses. Less weight is important to
many of us. Leica lenses are small but heavy.
>The Fuji kit is small light and effective. A properly selected Nikon kit
can do as well. Probably Canon too.
>What you lose is on noise ( given same pixel count the sensor spacing is
tighter which equals higher noise). You also lose big time on wide angle
use. If you >are a really WA shooter, then small sensors are a pain. You
need to get new really WA lenses or change how you shoot.
>If you want MFT, APS-C, or Minox then go for it. Just know the advantages
and challenges for your way to shoot.
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The APS-C of my X-E2 suits me fine. I can keep a 50mm on it all the time
yet get my favorite 85mm angle of view with a 50mm lens' smaller size. I
hardly ever want to get a wider view than a 50 gives on FF, and I get that
with the 35mm Summicron. I take my few wide shots with the LX3.
I once analyzed the stock slides I shot on my 1984 trip to Britain. The
general breakdown by lenses was: 50mm (44%), 100mm (22%), 35mm (15%), 21mm
(11%), and 300 mm (8%). The breakdown by my favorite pictures was 50mm
(57%), 100mm (27%), 21mm and 300mm (6% each) and 35mm (3%).
I didn't have an 85 for my OM's, or that might have been the favored lens.
Alan
Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA POY 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
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