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Subject: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:15:30 -0500
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Hi Bill,

Though it is an older lens, it is the sharpest lens in my collection.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Grimwood" <bill at grimwood.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?


> That has always been one of my favorite lenses.
>
> Bill Grimwood
> Hazel Green
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bill=grimwood.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bill=grimwood.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Nichols
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:16 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?
>
> 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-pho
> tojournalists-on-war.html
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>
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In reply to: Message from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?)
Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?)
Message from bill at grimwood.net (Bill Grimwood) ([Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?)