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Subject: [Leica] Lenses improvement on M8
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:41:06 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>
>> On top of being the sweet sport, there is at least one more additional
>> advantage of the M8 over the M9: as thge M8 sensor being smaller, the
>> apparent DoF is greater. Now if you are the give me 1mm DoF so I can
>> focus of the 2nd to the first eyelash type, well, this isn't a good
>> thing, but for most mortals, that extra apparent DoF can come in
>> handy.
>
>
> so clearly the M8 is the camera we wanted all along,
>
> :-)

Why yes!! but then you do want, no sorry, NEED, the M9 for the
occasions that you want the highest amount details for the biggest
blowup, or the occasions that you want, sorry, stupid typos, NEED that
razor thin DoF.


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