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 shot this at relatively low shutter speed (his mouth is blurred because he was chewing) with the 50-200 Olympus at the far end with the E-1. http://400tx.com/files/NOLABW/28.html Jeffery On Sep 14, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Peter Klein wrote: > 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. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information