Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Felix tell us what this full frame digital capability has opened up for you >possibility wise and how often you really use it!? >Do you have a stack of 13x19s or 17x22's sitting there and the old ones in >the stack shot with the cropped sensors are an embarrassment? Hi Mark, I think that this has been discussed "ad nauseam" in the endless quarrel between N and C owners! This also concerns to the future Leica sensors. The size of course does not matter if the final quality is up to the necessities you have. I do not print giant pictures so a so called APS had to be enough for me. But not speaking about noise issues with a minor sensor, my problem and BTW the problem of all users with some experience and, mainly, with a considerable amount of previous gear is that *all* your lenses became different. In my case I've got in the last 36 years exactly 34 different Nikkor lenses that suddenly in the digital aspect acquire a new nature. So a extreme wide is not more a extreme wide but merely a wide. Of course the tele will become a "extended" tele by cropping the image. New lenses for this new "format" are supposed to be smaller -most aren't- cheaper -again they aren't- and mainly they suppose on the wide side a redundancy as you need -let's say- a standard 28-70 for film and a 18-50, or anything like that, for digital. Besides there are lenses with no equivalence in the digital arena. There are not outstanding primes or they, as the big teles, change nature mainly DOF. I have no 14mm f2.8 for digital or a extreme wide zoom as the 17(16)-35 f2.8. I know these lenses are far from perfect but I like them very much. Canon with the full format sensor digital cameras left to users the possibility of using all my lenses in their exact nature. Apart from this the Canon FF digital cameras are the moire near to perfection cameras I know. I should be still using my Nikkor lenses if the Nikon D2X had full format sensor because the excellent 17-35 f2.8 will be exactly this not a cropped 25-43 zoom and I like a lot the camera. And Leica? Of course a FF sensor will be feasible. But at a astronomical price and therefore putting seriously in danger -more?- the future existence of the firm. So it's necessary to remark that every Leica -R and M- user with a big investment in lenses will have *different* lenses for digital pictures. If they shoot mostly tele -I'll think of Doug- they may be happy. If not they will feel not so well. And R backs will suppose that when switching from film to digital the lens instantly vary. I wish not this, so it's very easy I'll follow using film Leicas and Canon FF DSLR -by now two of them -the 1Ds and 1Ds MkII and with Canon lenses just because I'm very lazy and I trust the auto everything that so flawlessly works. Best regards Felix