Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agreed, entirely. And it?s why the expensive ?cron won?t make a difference for most people. And of course a fixed FL lens won?t effectively compete with a zoom until the sensor it images on has the pixel count that allows a 50%, 30%, 20% crop that gives the same FOV as a 50, 75, 120 mm zoom with nice detail. ?howard > On Dec 9, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Very surprising, and not my experience as a traveller/shooter > I was out shooting last night with a 35mm (50mm FF eq.) and missed my now > sold 24-120 on a D700. > > Resolution i.e. l/mm is one (tiny) part of a photo, angle, depth of field > and perspective matter to, me much more. > > Amities > Philippe > > Le 9 d?c. 2015 ? 19:50, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> a ?crit : > >> And this brings up the possibilities for dispensing with zooms and >> interchangeable lenses altogether for general purposes. If a camera with >> a fixed WA lens had a FF 200-MPx sensor and a digital zoom function, and >> an EVF, it would have the same capabilities as a big FF DSLR with a >> 24-120 zoom?even with a linear 1/5 crop, equivalent to a 5x zoom, > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information