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Subject: [Leica] Olympus 50-200 (was Re: (no subject))
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:54:22 -0500
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And you got a highlight in the eye.  Nice work!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:02 PM
Subject: [Leica] Olympus 50-200 (was Re: (no subject))


>I shot this at relatively low shutter speed (his mouth is blurred because 
>he was chewing) with the 50-200 Olympus at the far end with the E-1.
>
> http://400tx.com/files/NOLABW/28.html
>
> Jeffery
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>
>> I recently visited David Young, who many of you know from the Leica-R
>> list. David does wildlife photography. He's found that his E-3 with the
>> Olympus 50-200 zoom gave him excellent image quality, and significantly
>> more magnification per pound of gear carried. That "crop circle" has an
>> upside--it doubles your effective magnification.
>>
>> David has three large (16x20-ish) prints on his living-room wall. Could I
>> tell which ones were made with Leica equipment and which were with
>> Olympus?  I couldn't.
>>
>> I can't agree with my friend Mark about the "crop-circle" thing.  It's
>> about suitability for the job at hand, not suitability for everything.
>> There are some things that are 1Ds Mark-whatever territory, and 
>> somethings
>> that are Leica M territory, and some things that are Olympus territory.
>>
>> One thing that is true is that the 4/3 DSLRs didn't really give us the
>> small and light footprint that was initially promised.  That has fallen 
>> to
>> micro 4/3.  And for high-ISO noise, size does matter.
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>> Richard Man wrote:
>>
>>> B.D. still uses E-System, not quite a nobody.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You would have thought they'd have paid off some names. They usually do.
>>> "they" being most camera companies. These people nobody ever heard of. 
>>> Cept
>>> their Mom's.
>>>
>>
>>
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