Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sure it does. Yes, the outer image area is truncated..... but the image captured ( albeit smaller) has the same angle of view as a 640. Why do you think the 210 on a 4x5 is about the same as a 50 on a 35mm camera? The angle of view is the same. Is the quality of the image the same with less pixels? Maybe, maybe not. It is 2 different sensors and 2 different recording systems. Compound this with the fact that the user will probably not blow the picture up past the 4x5 or 5x7 size, and the user will never know the diffeence in quality. So a 400 CAN act like a 640 given 2 different sensor sizes.. That is preciesly the point.... the marketing hype, when said to the right audience, becomes sales. So, while the intelligent and informed buyer is cautious, your neighbor is out there spending his hard earned cash on marketing "facts". And if you run a company on profits, which they all do, then the hype is good, confusion is good. The most important 2 words in marketing......Trust me...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html