Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] Canon G9 vs the PanaLeicas; Interesting offer from Canon
From: leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Thu Jul 17 15:07:31 2008
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36013F21A8@case-email.casefoods.com>

Canon considered the introduction of an internal IR filter as an
improvement...
something Leica did not, many years later, when releasing the M8 
:o)
Didier

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:27:47 -0400, "David Rodgers"
<drodgers@casefarms.com> wrote:
> My Canon G2 took nice IR photos. Later models I tried did not. Sometimes
> newer is not necessarily improved, all things considered.


>> If I remember correctly, the G5 was 2.8 through the entire focal length
>> range and the subsequent G's were not. Perhaps it may be worth the wait
>> to see if they go back to that; it was a deciding factor for my decision
>> to purchase the G5...
>> Just more food for thought,
>> Bob



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