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 21:50:06 2008

> Mark, I always enjoy your distinctive posts ;-)
> There's a great deal more to it than physical sensor size though, and the
> scalability of digital captures, signal/noise ratios, the camera's 
> firmware,
> the processing software etc etc.
> How about what you want to shoot with it? If you like longer lenses then
> your hobby farm size crop circle will be a positive advantage. All of the
> makers have come up with a range of super-wides anyway. I suspect that 
> fewer
> people actually use their older lenses that nominally fit than the new
> dedicated zooms with their new DSLRs. Maybe with the D200 and up your older
> fine quality manual prime Nikkors are practical. Wanna buy some ;-)
> snip

Thanks Hoppy! I think the price point and size point is at 1.5!

Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com



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