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

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Apr 15 11:56:00 2008
References: <380-220084215182647915@M2W020.mail2web.com> <200804151831.APB23974@rg5.comporium.net>

On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> At 02:26 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
>> 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
>
> I'm saving my money and my R lenses for the R10.  ;-)


put them in deep storage Tina, and hope we live that long.

Steve


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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)