Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Because when sensor technology gets better it raises the bar on the results we get. No one sees it as a reason to not justify being able to now buy cheap cameras.. We get now get better results from our Leica M and latest flagship cameras from Canon and Nikon. Serious photographers and top pros are not going "now I can shoot with a smaller sensor" and stick with the results they got five years ago they are going "not I can get better results" There is no movement for pros to be shooting with 1.5x crop or any other crop camera. The predominance of full frame cameras for top pro and serious amateur work is now even more so.. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:10:06 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Review of Fuji's new X-E1 with zoom lens. > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information