Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Richard, You just reinforced my choice of an Elmarit-R 28mm to be my "normal" lens on the 2x crop 5MP Olympus E-1. It works for me................ Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:19 AM Subject: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8? > This photo caught my eyes: > <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/Kamber_War0002.jpg> > > Being a photo geek - this is clearly a super wide angle shot, but look, > there's no "oblong" wide angle lens distortion at the edge? I downloaded > the image, and it's taken on a 2004 state of the art camera - the 1.3x > crop > Canon 1 D MkII with a whooping 8.2 megapixels. The lens is set to 16mm, so > about 21mm in "full frame," still quite a wide angle shot. > > Perhaps because it's cropped from a 16mm image that we do not see the > distortion, which actually would be an argument in favor of using a > cropped > sensor. > > The full article, which is quite interesting, is here: > < > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/ten-years-later-photojournalists-on-war.html >> > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >