Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People bang on about the noise of 4/3 sensors, they are certainly inferior to 24x36 sensors, but I find the noise less noticeable than grain on equivalent speed film, for example, so it is not as good as most digital, but still better than film in respect to light sensitivity. Leica said digital sensors were unsuitable for rangefinder design WA lenses before customer pressure led to the M8 (who then complained about the compromises chosen to deal with what Leica had warned about). They were not wrong and the wide Leica lenses do not work as well on a 4/3 sensor as on the M8, which has the microlenses over the sensor re-orientated to an average angle more suited to the angle of incidence on them from rangefinder lenses (some better than others, obviously). If you want to use 50mm and longer M lenses (cropped to half size) this should be OK, but not as good as the Panasonic which Howard, in particular, gave details of a few months ago. FD On 16 Jun, 2009, at 06:04, Frank Filippone wrote: > Thanks Doug..... > > The Pen lenses came in these Fl: > 20, 25, 38, 40, 42, 60, 70, 50-90, 100-200, 100, 150, 250 mm and more > telephotos that are pretty rare..... > > So pretty much, you are talking about normal ( FOV) to telephotos on > the 4/3 > format using Pen F lenses...... > > If there were a M adapter to 4/3 ( and we now know that Panasonic has > announced one), the FL are more wide angle related.... with the 12 > and 15mm > Cosina lenses through to the 135mm. > > I think this may be a reasonably priced solution to the Digi-M. > ( albeit > 4/3 sensor size.....which will impact noise levels) > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > > 1/4 the surface area, about 1/2 the diagonal so a 35mm lens on a 4/3 > camera > has the field of view of a 70mm lens on a 24x36mm camera. > > Doug Herr > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information