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

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Apr 15 12:11:35 2008

> 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


You took the words right out of my beak!

Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com



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