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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Apr 15 11:45:05 2008
References: <380-220084215182647915@M2W020.mail2web.com>

The way to go if one wanted a long lens on a 4/3 camera would be 
Olympus' 300/2.8 (which translates to a 600/2.8 in 35mm terms). Pricey, 
but what a fast 600.

wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote:
> Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Leica R glass is very heavy solid stuff.
>> Sticking it on a camera using the middle third of it strikes me funny.
>> The camera seems nice enough I'd just use it with the Olympus glass.
>> With full AF and metering.
>>     
>
> 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
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)
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