Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue Apr 15 11:31:49 2008
References: <380-220084215182647915@M2W020.mail2web.com>

At 02:26 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
>I wouldn't buy R lenses only to use on a 4/3 camera.  A 4/3 camera will
>take advantage of only 25% of the R lens' image circle, and a big part of
>the high cost of an R lens is the image quality over the whole image
>circle.  I suspect that a good lens designed for the smaller 4/3 image
>circle would out-perform an R lens on the same camera, at a much lower cost.
>
>Doug Herr

I'm saving my money and my R lenses for the R10.  ;-)

Tina 


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