Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feli, Olympus is trying to turn the lemon of a sensor size into lemonade by creating fast glass so that 800ISO at F2 is the same as 1600 as F2.8. With the emphasis on limited DOF in the fashion world I give them a fair chance of pulling it off. Naw, the soccer mom shooting soccer or football will not be able to keep enough in focus at F2, and there are some really good lenses from independent manufacturers that are 2.8, quite good, quite cheap, and in the other guys mounts. Again, I think Olympus is in a niche market with the 4/3 system. A very good system that only a few people will appreciate. :( Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Feli Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:40 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] For B.D. On Apr 10, 2005, at 5:07 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > Boy, there's a shocker!:-) There's only one problem with all of it, and > I say this as an Olympus whore - Shocking, isn't it? ;-) > thus far, the smaller sensor does seem > to translate into more noise at higher isos. It may well be that this > can be overcome, but there seems little question that at this point, > the > Canon DSLR's provide the lowest noise levels. And that right there is my problem with the 4/3 system. I simply don't think they will be able to get the noise levels down, given the size of the chip, especially above 800asa. Both Nikon and Canon are struggling to keep things clean with the slightly bigger APS size. It a shame because it looks like a very nice system They recently announced a 14-35mm (35mm equiv: 28-70mm) f2.0 and 35-100mm (35mm equiv: 70-200mm) f2.0. No one else is making fast glass like that. feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information