Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:14:45 +0800
References: <C64CF9E7.4F79F%mark@rabinergroup.com>

There's always the Sigma DP1/2 for the impatient...

Personally I'm not holding my breath, though. Even if they do release  
a digital Pen like the photokina concept, it won't have an optical  
finder. And that to me is a big no-no.

On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Bigger is better but there are times when you go for compactness.
> There's no point in having a camrea body the same size as another  
> camera
> body with it only being able to shoot a format half the size.
> Half frame cameras and lenses were half the size of normal 35mm gear.
> 72 on a roll.
> Pocketable.
> Its use was a whole different thing.
> If I had a strict bigger is better thing going I'd be shooting  
> sheet film
> not roll film. And renting digital backs for the camera. Which in  
> my case is
> a Calumet Cambo NX which I only have one lens for. A Fujinon 210. 5.6.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:07:27 +0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years
>>
>> What happened to the whole bigger is better argument you were
>> defending to the hilt last week? :P
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>
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THEIN Onn Ming
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