Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Dante A. Stella wrote: > > "The real threat to 35mm film will come with the next generation of > sensors. If pixel size were to, say, halve, you could halve the frame size > and use much smaller cine-type lenses. Then you get into f/1.4 and f/2 > zooms, things that conventional camera users dream about. I don't know much about sensors and pixels, but, FWIW, the new Olympus C-3040 and C-2040 uses an f/1.8~2.6 3x zoom lens. It seems that the magic number you've suggested has been reached. - -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:belinkoff@earthlink.net "It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use." - Sam Abell