Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:45:14 -0400
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i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to focus the 
thing?

i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question

ric


On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:22 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:

> BJP also said the X1 was terribly slow storing images and had very 
> noticeable shutter lag.  Outside of that they liked it.
> 
> Gene
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:39:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
> 
> Leica has said they're not going to be further involved with the 4/3
> S system. We should take that to our own hearts. It came out with the X1.
> Its the only compact camera you can use for stock. That was announced today
> on the British Journal of Photography.  I'd recommend you guys stop
> endlessly buying and selling and playing around with toy cameras. 
> Especially
> rumors of them. Who cares?
> Non micro 4/3's went out because for half the image capture size you
> got......? You got nothing. The cameras were the same size if not bigger
> than existing and coming out 1.5 crop cameras. And they cost more.
> 
> A 1.5 crop camera you can now use for sketching. And occasional serious
> image where a real compact camera really helped.
> 1x crop is what Barnack would be shooting if he was cruising the streets of
> Wetzlar and Cologne (K?ln) right now.
> 
> If you guys were shooting film would you be out with a stupid Minox?!?!?!
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
>> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:14:40 +0200
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
>> 
>> Could it be Kaufman's satisfactory solution for R users ?
>> 
>> Ph
>> 
>> Le 25 ao?t 10 ? 18:58, Jeffery Smith a ?crit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> The 4/3 rumor site has it that there is a rangefinder company ready
>>> to announce a 4/3 camera in the next few hours. I'm wondering if it
>>> is Cosina/Voigtlander.
>>> 
>>> http://www.43rumors.com/
>>> 
>>> Jeffery
>>> 
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