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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:11:38 -0700 (PDT)
References: <506FA546-28CA-45F3-AD85-D2E9F47A781E@mac.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E913334145@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <CA+yJO1At4iUBL+vjXaSbd1P0xuubJsboTbWma7kSSXk-kQjkow@mail.gmail.com> <CAF8hL-GkCqThdFneF3ncnWhMCxNAi-tD3BU3PsVgtEaUwpMnaQ@mail.gmail.com> <40BBBB21-52C0-47CE-BA2B-8021493A6A2D@mac.com> <1318974263.71324.YahooMailNeo@web39301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CA+yJO1D65Wdm--qbyYij48etLvsmv5OUeH8TCw9MtYFx5a0cYg@mail.gmail.com>
I ABSOLUTELY agree with you.... except that for what I'm doing on a day to
day "need to pay the rent" basis they ARE good enough.? For personal
stuff... well.? I still have my RB and my M's... and now the PanaLeica.??
Out of curiosity - did you have the same fringing problems with the EOS
primes?
R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
>________________________________
>From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the
>mega-pixel wars?
>
>That's my issue with Canon lenses.? Awful purple fringing on every wide
>angle shot.? Not to mention problems with auto-focus that make manual focus
>much faster and loss of detail because of the AA filter.? Nobody on the
>stock lists believes me when I talk about how much better Leica lenses are.
>Nobody cares.? Canon is good enough, I guess.? Not for me.
>
>Tina
>
>
>
Replies:
Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
In reply to:
Message from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?)