Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Apr 15 11:26:52 2008

Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Leica R glass is very heavy solid stuff.
> Sticking it on a camera using the middle third of it strikes me funny.
> The camera seems nice enough I'd just use it with the Olympus glass.
> With full AF and metering.

I wouldn't buy R lenses only to use on a 4/3 camera.  A 4/3 camera will
take advantage of only 25% of the R lens' image circle, and a big part of
the high cost of an R lens is the image quality over the whole image
circle.  I suspect that a good lens designed for the smaller 4/3 image
circle would out-perform an R lens on the same camera, at a much lower cost.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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