Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recently visited David Young, who many of you know from the Leica-R list. David does wildlife photography. He's found that his E-3 with the Olympus 50-200 zoom gave him excellent image quality, and significantly more magnification per pound of gear carried. That "crop circle" has an upside--it doubles your effective magnification. David has three large (16x20-ish) prints on his living-room wall. Could I tell which ones were made with Leica equipment and which were with Olympus? I couldn't. I can't agree with my friend Mark about the "crop-circle" thing. It's about suitability for the job at hand, not suitability for everything. There are some things that are 1Ds Mark-whatever territory, and somethings that are Leica M territory, and some things that are Olympus territory. One thing that is true is that the 4/3 DSLRs didn't really give us the small and light footprint that was initially promised. That has fallen to micro 4/3. And for high-ISO noise, size does matter. --Peter Richard Man wrote: > B.D. still uses E-System, not quite a nobody. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > You would have thought they'd have paid off some names. They usually do. > "they" being most camera companies. These people nobody ever heard of. Cept > their Mom's. >