Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Crop factor 2, as per all 4/3 cameras. Noctilux equiv 100mm f1 portrait lens, not bad. WA? forget about it! Frank On 16 Jun, 2009, at 01:21, Frank Filippone wrote: > This is pretty interesting...... > > I could use my M lenses ( see: > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0905/09052101panasonicadaptors.asp ) > I could use my M Finders > I could keep ( hopefully) most of my money, and still get a Digi-M > > Most interesting.....I would suppose there is no RF? Focus using > the screen > in the back? > > Given that a 4/3 sensor is ( I think) 1/4 the size of 35mm film, the > crop > factor would be .... 4 ????? > Which would mean to get the same AOV as a 35mm lens on a 35mm film, > you > would need a 35/4 = 9mm lens on this camera format.? > > Maybe for the birders out there? > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > Those interested in the rumoured Olympus micro-4/3 camera, the "Pen F > celebration" model, might have a look here. Could be a fake, but most > Olympus freaks believe it is real: > > Exchangeable lens, fixed focal length - actually a f2.8 17mm (34mm > eq.) - > and an optical finder: http://tinyurl.com/n2maaf > > Panasonic is said to come up with a 20mm/f1.7 lens for the same > system. > > When the micro-4/3 system was presented more than a year ago, it was > my > first idea that such a system should lead to something ecaxtly like > that. A > compact camera with a better sensor than other compacts and a good > optical > finder. > > Didier > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information