Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Olympus vs. Leica
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Jul 19 21:56:51 2007

I'm sure its great for uploading to galleries and showing to lists as would
a digital camera with a CCD in the back the size of a Minox camera like many
do but I'd like to know how the 11x14s or 11x17s look compared to a more
typical APS-C 1.3 - 1.6 crop circle whose cameras are often smaller than the
4/3 system with the exception of this latest from Olympus which seems to be
the first case of a body whose proportions finally match its crop circle.

On APS-C

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APS-C

On 4/3's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Thirds_System

I carried around and shot with my D40x tonight with an old 28 2.8 early AF
lens on it in the Lincoln Center area. There was a big  party going on with
a musical group with lots of percussionists. I was glad I had a compact 2.8
and not a big slow zoom like I often have on my cameras.
I focused myself and had a ball doing it.
Shot at A set the lens at f4. Not more P for me.
The lens is not worth 40 bucks but I love using it.

Might get the current 28mm f/2.8 AI-s with 8 elements in 8 groups instead of
the typical 5 says Rockwell not George Lincoln.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/28f28ais.htm

The 4/3 system no longer beckons to me like it did 5 months ago.
The D40x is smaller than all but one 4/3 system bodies with a shooting area
twice the size. 1.5 is twice 2 isn't it? I never studied logarithms.
I got no logarithm.

Mark Rabiner

Snap snap



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