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

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 15:35:28 2008

Same here.  Now if it is just announced and shown at Photokina...  ;-)

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>
>
> 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.  ;-)
> 
> Tina 
> 
> 
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