Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica participation in 4/3rds format
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Feb 26 16:28:28 2006

IF the various folks involved with the 4/3 system can increase the pixel
counts and reduce the noise - and the new Oly330/Panasonic whatever suggests
just maybe they can, 4/3 will indeed prove to be viable. If they can't - it
won't. Period.


On 2/26/06 7:03 PM, "Colin J" <smcj35@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Steven A. Melnyk" wrote:
> <snip>
>> In short, I am not convinced of the long term
>> validity of the 4/3
>> standard.  I am not sure that Leica does itself
>> any benefit by  
>> aligning itself with this standard.  Past
>> history tells us that when
>> there are several standards, only one or two
>> will emerge as the
>> dominate standard.  In a world dominated by
>> Canon and Nikon, I am not
>> sure of the long term viability of this
>> standard.  I may be wrong but
>> history would argue against the 4/3 standard.
> 
> 
> About 80 years ago, when the "standard" was 4x5
> inches or larger, along came an innovator who
> proposed a much smaller format, using a film that
> was a mere 35mm wide.
> 
> In a world dominated by larger formats, a great
> many people were not sure of the long term
> viability of this new 35mm standard.  They also
> probably thought that history would argue against
> 35mm.
> 
> Like Steven, I am a "4/3 skeptic", to the extent
> that I sold my Olympus E-1 and three lenses and
> bought a Canon EOS 5D and some EF glass.  12.8 MP
> and low noise was too hard to resist, and 5 MP
> and a lot of noise was too hard to keep.
> 
> However, the lesson of history is surely that it
> is too soon to write the epitaph of the 4/3
> standard just yet.  We should wait and see. 4/3
> may yet be "the new 35mm", and it is good to see
> that Leica will be involved.
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re: Leica participation in 4/3rds format)
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Reply from nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts) ([Leica] Re: Leica participation in 4/3rds format)
In reply to: Message from smcj35 at yahoo.com (Colin J) ([Leica] Re: Leica participation in 4/3rds format)