Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning - I couldn't agree with you more. I hate big heavy cameras. compare the size on an original Leica to an F5 and reflect on the negative size..... A digital Olympus Pen would be in my bag immediately. Frank > Henning Wulff opined > At 11:06 AM -0700 7/21/03, Martin Howard wrote: >> Henning Wulff wrote: >> >>> I have heard a number of explanations of this '4/3' thing, such as >>> it being the size of the sensor via some calculations, but it >>> appears to me to only apply to the ratio of the format. Does anyone >>> know definitively? >> >> This might help: >> >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp >> >> And (about 1/3 down the page, just above the images of the naked body >> shots): >> >> http://www.dpreview.com/articles/olympuse1/ >> >> M. > > Thanks, Martin. That first link provides the explanation, even if the > logic under current circumstances falls apart. > > As a general comment on the 4/3 Olympus system: here we have a > purpose built camera and system that has a sensor area that is little > more than 1/2 the size of the old Olympus Pen F film area, and a body > that is maybe 3 or 4 times the volume of the Pen F. The lenses for > the E-1 too are smaller than equivalent lenses for film by other > manufacturers, but not a whole lot smaller. > > I wouldn't mind seeing something the size of the old Pen F system > coming out, with all the extra space that they didn't need for all > the huge film volume and gate (!) being used for some miniaturized > electronics. And, since the lenses only have to cover less than 60% > of the area that the Pen F lenses did, they don't have to be as big > as the Pen F lenses! > > Yes, yes, yes... I know a number of reasons why we have hulking > monsters like the Canon 1D, but a lack of commitment to compactness > has overtaken the industry since Pentax with the MX and Olympus with > the OM system stopped being major players. > > Where is Maitani now that we really need him?? > > - -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > - -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html