Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] Potential Pentax Purchase
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed Apr 9 20:32:40 2008

> Thanks, Hoppy.  I have researched the Oly offerings at length.  I agree, it
> is hard to make a choice.
> 
> Jim Nichols


With all the Nikon and Canon people moving up from
23.6x15.8mm format to 24x36mm you'd be shooting 18x13.5mm,

The 1.5 crop circle dominates photography right now but 1x for the masses is
right on our doorsteps. Like this year.
You want to be out standing in the field in a 2x crop circle?
You want your 50mm lens to become a 100?

Canon has a consumer priced 1x camera out now and Nikon has a pro version;
It's just a body away from a consumer priced 1x camera body leaping off the
shelves. Canon and Nikon will be leapfrogging themselves in competition with
ever cheaper full frame cameras. The whole corn field.

If the 4/3 cameras were half the size of the Nikons and Canons it would be
another thing. But they're for the most part bigger not smaller.
What do they got that I don't got? Courage?

Its not location location location. In photography,
It's Acreage.


Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com



Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Potential Pentax Purchase)
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