Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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: > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein