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Subject: [Leica] Canon Introducs 2 new digital SLRs
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Aug 23 06:52:40 2005

In the real world, Vick, the DMR has never existed.;-)
BTW, for all the horse hooey yesterday about the worthless viewfinder in the
new Canon, it's interesting to note the following:

Leica R9:
Viewfinder Field: 23 x 25 mm, corresponds to 93 % of the image area
(96 % vertical x 97 % horizontal), in conformance with the
standardized 35 mm slide format. Viewfinder Magnification: 0.75 x
with a 50 mm lens set at infinity and at 0 diopter correction.

Canon EOS 5D:
Viewfinder
? 96% frame coverage
? 0.71x magnification

So let me get this straight - the 5D provides MORE image coverage than an
R9, and it provides .71 magnification, compared to the Leica M's stunning
.72, and the R9s 'world beating .75, and yet the new 5D has such a poor
viewfinder that it's not worth considering according to some here?
Fascinating. Why do I have the feeling that if it was emblazoned with a Red
Dot and the name Leica half the members of the list would already have
orders in? (Except Doug, of course, because it doesn't offer 16 bit
capture.)


On 8/22/05 11:31 PM, "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

> on 8/22/05 5:27 PM, Vick Ko at vick.ko@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 
>> Is it a DMR killer?  Or has the DMR already died?
> 
> Not for me.  The 12-bit capture is less than I'm looking for.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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