[Leica] Move over Q, here comes AIR

[chris williams]

Mark,

The phone is just the viewfinder and control, the sensor is a 4/3rd inside the Olympus. You do not use the phone's tiny sensor.

What is a "real" camera? 

And I find nothing wrong with having a bulge in my pocket.




Chris Williams
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On Jul 01, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> 1. Turns you into a person professing a serious interest in photography
> looking for an excuse to leave your camera at home so you never have to put
> down your iPhone.
> 2. Turns your beloved slippery smart phone into something making a bulge in
> your pocket. Won't slip in and out of your pocket so fast. But get caught on
> the stitching. You might need to go out and get a Captain Kangaroo jacket.
> 3, Is having a separate compact camera really such a hassle? Its not like
> you are juggling the camera with its battery and sensor in the air all at
> the same time. Its all fits in the camera.
> 4. 4/3's glass or Leica glass does not make the tiny sensor on your smart
> phone any bigger. It just makes it more ridiculous.
> 5. Put a real camera in your other pocket.
> 6. The sensors on smart phones are so small its near impossible to get the
> spec on just how small they are. What is a normal lens for a smart phone
> 4mm's? If they told you they'd have to kill you.
>
>
> On 6/30/15 5:05 PM, "Dante Stella" <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>> Everything you detest about separate cameras (more batteries, cards, bulk)
>> combined with everything you hate about taking smartphone pictures (slippery
>> phones, clumsy applications). What could go wrong?!
>
> Dante