Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:49:18 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009  Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

>Come on, Curmudgeons :-)

>This is the second camera body, or may be even third, or fourth.

>Kind of like four third.

>It's also the camera you will have in your purse, or pants pocket.

>If you have baggy pants.

>Point is, you will carry this camera.

>Whereas your D3X stays in the SUV.

>The body + 17mm lens is lighter than the Noctilux, even the Cosina one.

>And you dial the ISO to 6400. Just like M8 with ISO800 and Noctilux at F1.

>And you save $9195.
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I'll save ALL the money and carry my Olympus XA in my pocket.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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