[Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years

[mingthein at gmail.com (Ming Thein)]

Or better yet a digital Olympus mju II...

Thein Onn Ming
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On Jun 5, 2009, at 0:50, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Impatient?
> Impatient for a  13.8 mm x 20.7  sensor size which is what's in a  
> Sigma
> DP1/2?
>
> On a camera that size I'd like half frame;
> An 18 x 24 mm sensor size.
>
> until they figured out how to fit one in bigger;
> Say a 24 x 36 sensor size.
> Which I'm sure in two years they'll have.
>
> We need a digital Rollei 35.
>
>
>
> 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 16:14:45 +0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years
>>
>> 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
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