Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's great if it produces a higher quality image - just as asa 25 film produces a higher quality image than asa 800 film, or 2 1/4 film produces a higher quality image than 35mm, and 4x5 produces a higher quality image than 2 1/4. There is absolutely no question that a 4x5 Linhoff can produce a "higher quality" image than an EOS 1v - or a Leica M7 - but you don't see allot of photo journalists running around with 4x5s anymore - the quality of the 35 is far more than good enough to produce excellent images, and the 35 is far more convenient to use than the 4x5. Similarly, a full-frame, 11 mgp sensor captures humongous files, which fills up cards too damn fast - and takes too long between images, for the kind of work many photo journalists do. Yes, the day may come, and soon, when the storage is no longer an issue, and the speed problem has been eliminated. I have NEVER said that a full-frame, 11 mgp sensor, won't produce a higher resolution image than a partial-frame sensor. What I have said is that the quality being produced by those smaller sensors is damn good - way more than sufficient for newspaper work and most magazine work. Which means that if it chooses to do so - and I have heard that it has - Nikon could stick with its present sensor size, improve the quality of that sensor, build smaller, lighter lenses using its standard mount, and make other improvements in its cameras that would help it keep its user base. Or maybe not. I'm now out of this debate until we read/hear an announcement from Nikon on its next set of pro cameras. :-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Felix Lopez de Maturana Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:25 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE:[Leica] Re: Nikon Digital SLR's >If the smaller sensor produces a high quality image BD Perhaps the point is: What if the bigger sensor produces a higher quality image, as it in fact does? Kind regards Felix - -- 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