Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/14

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon Apr 14 16:36:41 2008
References: <4803CAE5.4010502@hemenway.com> <C4296105.A0E58%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark, check this site out: http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/43/sensor-size.html

The APS-C sensor is not a whole lot bigger than the 4/3 sensor, 
especially on the vertical height dept. Any noise complaints about 
4/3 can be applied to APS-C!

At 04:29 PM 4/14/2008, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>Its not 1.5 X it 2 times and yes this does make noise an issue and city
>shooting at night much less of a big bang full of fun as your results will
>look great as long as you keep them the size of a biz card.
>
>Sensor cleaning to me is no big deal just blow on it.
>My sensor on my D40x for some reason has never shown a spot on the sensor.
>And it was no cleaning.
>But my other body has. The D200x. I have to be really on that and hate to
>change glass in the fired as I don't have my blowguns handy with the red
>skinny spigots.
>20.7mmx13.8mm cut out of the 24x36 size it was designed to deal with!
>
>Seems a big of a waste. As half the money you're spending on this otherwise
>not lightweight Leica glass is for the consistency of field right out to the
>edges. You're way into the sweet spot.
>Any half wit glass is sharp in the very center.
>

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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