Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would humbly submit that format size and pixel count are not as important as that. I've got a five year old 5 megapixel P&S that takes better shots that the new 10 and 12 megapixel face-detecting high-definition, blah, blah P&S cameras do now. To me the big selling point of the micro system is I can use my Leica glass on a small, well-built camera WITH image stabilization without spending 6 grand. Sounds like fun to me. Jim On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mark Rabiner<mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I've been ragging about the 2x format being called a ?4/3's open system for > years on the LUG as the bodies were too big for the format and there was no > justification for going down in format that early in the game not that > there > is now. > > They've fixed that with the micro prefix tweak to the system making for > nice > small pocket cameras like they should have been all along but I still don't > know why I need to be shooting half half frame format. > > Its like the silver crunch in the 1970's. > They're going to give you a deal and sell you half the silver for twice the > money. Disk disk film during the silver scandal. > > Had the format been invented later on down the line when the sensors were > getting better and better it would have not smelt so rotten in Denmark to > me. Right now 1.5 is smaller than you want. 2x is great for people who love > 4x6 snapshots. I would think that would not be the Leica users group > mentality for the most part. > > I love the Olympus Pen name and look. but that should in fairness be an 1.5 > crop cameras. And I think sooner or later it will be. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:39:45 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 4/3's lens firmware updates >> >> So Mark, are you finally agreeing the wisdom of a >> all-new-from-the-ground-up dSLR SYSTEM design? :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >