[Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?

[bill at grimwood.net (Bill Grimwood)]

That has always been one of my favorite lenses.

Bill Grimwood
Hazel Green

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bill=grimwood.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Nichols
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?

Hi Richard,

You just reinforced my choice of an Elmarit-R 28mm to be my "normal" lens on
the 2x crop 5MP Olympus E-1.  It works for me................

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:19 AM
Subject: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?


> This photo caught my eyes:
> <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/Kamber_War0002.jpg>
>
> Being a photo geek - this is clearly a super wide angle shot, but look,
> there's no "oblong" wide angle lens distortion at the edge? I downloaded
> the image, and it's taken on a 2004 state of the art camera - the 1.3x 
> crop
> Canon 1 D MkII with a whooping 8.2 megapixels. The lens is set to 16mm, so
> about 21mm in "full frame," still quite a wide angle shot.
>
> Perhaps because it's cropped from a 16mm image that we do not see the
> distortion, which actually would be an argument in favor of using a 
> cropped
> sensor.
>
> The full article, which is quite interesting, is here:
> <
>
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/ten-years-later-pho
tojournalists-on-war.html
>>
>
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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