Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I always enjoy your distinctive posts ;-) There's a great deal more to it than physical sensor size though, and the scalability of digital captures, signal/noise ratios, the camera's firmware, the processing software etc etc. How about what you want to shoot with it? If you like longer lenses then your hobby farm size crop circle will be a positive advantage. All of the makers have come up with a range of super-wides anyway. I suspect that fewer people actually use their older lenses that nominally fit than the new dedicated zooms with their new DSLRs. Maybe with the D200 and up your older fine quality manual prime Nikkors are practical. Wanna buy some ;-) I think that Olympus is pioneering or pursuing a number of useful strategies. I like the idea of compact bodies and the E400's and 500's are certainly that (as are smaller models from Pentax, Nikon and Canon) The newest implementations of Live view look very good too, and I think that Olympus is leading the trend there. What about image stabilization? Also to be objective, you would have to acknowledge that 24x36 sensors are a long way from being available for consumer prices at this stage. Jim is considering relatively inexpensive models (ie not pro cameras). The Pentaxes look great, so do the other makers. To me that means pick a model from any of those makers that feels best in your own hands and with controls that you can live with. They will all make great images, I'm sure. Cheers Geoff, owner of a 1.33 crop circle, now THERE'S a camera where legacy lenses are the driver. http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] Potential Pentax Purchase > Thanks, Hoppy. I have researched the Oly offerings at length. I agree, it > is hard to make a choice. > > Jim Nichols With all the Nikon and Canon people moving up from 23.6x15.8mm format to 24x36mm you'd be shooting 18x13.5mm, The 1.5 crop circle dominates photography right now but 1x for the masses is right on our doorsteps. Like this year. You want to be out standing in the field in a 2x crop circle? You want your 50mm lens to become a 100? Canon has a consumer priced 1x camera out now and Nikon has a pro version; It's just a body away from a consumer priced 1x camera body leaping off the shelves. Canon and Nikon will be leapfrogging themselves in competition with ever cheaper full frame cameras. The whole corn field. If the 4/3 cameras were half the size of the Nikons and Canons it would be another thing. But they're for the most part bigger not smaller. What do they got that I don't got? Courage? Its not location location location. In photography, It's Acreage. Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information