Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A 1.6x digi SLR DOES NOT make your 400mm act like a 640mm! It makes a 400mm picture with the outer 40% of the image cropped off. Marketing claims like this are confusing everyone. - --Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:53 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Nikon Digital SLR's > True at 35mm, but try the argument again at 400mm... Who would want to use a > 400mm lens at 400mm when he is told he could make that lens act like a 560mm > lens? SUre sounds like a marketing position to me... "Use my new Model L1 > Digital camera with the result that your telephoto lenses will get you > closer to the sports participants." Imagine all the fathers that take > endless pictures of their kids swimming, soccer, baseball, football, > lacrosse, hurling, tiddly winks, ping pong, etc. They now could own bigger > faster lenses without the cost of those bigger faster lenses..... Idiotic? > Maybe. Maybe not. > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > Why > wouldn't anyone prefer to use a 35mm lens as a 35mm lens? > > David W. Almy > Annapolis > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html