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Subject: [Leica] Review of Fuji's new X-E1 with zoom lens. RICHARD
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:34:57 +0100
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Richard, you logic escapes me here - and Mark we'll get you on this ;-)

If as you say APS has progressed and can rival with a D700, remember  
the D7?0 is discontinue; Nikon has since released the DXOO that  
surpasses the current APS offering ...
CQFD

Amiti?s
Philippe

Le 11 nov. 12 ? 21:10, Richard Man a ?crit :

> Leica has always been about getting that last 5%. OTOH, for certain
> subjects or certain people's way of working, they can't get that 95%  
> anyway
> with Leica, hence the "best camera" won't do squat.
>
> So... looking at pure "bigger is better" viewpoint, the Sony RX is  
> very
> appealing, since it has a 35mm full frame sensor. However, the sensor
> manufacturers have demonstrated that today's sensors can vastly  
> outperform
> even sensors from a generation. i.e. did you think the D700 images  
> were
> great?! Well, now you can get similar quality from an APS sensor and  
> so on
> and so forth.
>
> So I'm afraid the time for a full frame "compact" has passed. If it  
> was
> released 3 years ago, people would have flocked to it. Now? When you  
> can
> get APS cameras with almost similar quality and other convenience,  
> what
> would be the point?
>
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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