Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V25 #87
From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:33:25 +0100

Henning - I couldn't agree with you more. I hate big heavy cameras. 
compare the size on an original Leica to an F5 and reflect on the 
negative size.....
A digital Olympus Pen would be in my bag immediately.
Frank


> Henning Wulff opined
> At 11:06 AM -0700 7/21/03, Martin Howard wrote:
>> Henning Wulff wrote:
>>
>>> I have heard a number of explanations of this '4/3' thing, such as
>>> it being the size of the sensor via some calculations, but it
>>> appears to me to only apply to the ratio of the format. Does anyone
>>> know definitively?
>>
>> This might help:
>>
>> 	http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp
>>
>> And (about 1/3 down the page, just above the images of the naked body 
>> shots):
>>
>> 	http://www.dpreview.com/articles/olympuse1/
>>
>> M.
>
> Thanks, Martin. That first link provides the explanation, even if the
> logic under current circumstances falls apart.
>
> As a general comment on the 4/3 Olympus system: here we have a
> purpose built camera and system that has a sensor area that is little
> more than 1/2 the size of the old Olympus Pen F film area, and a body
> that is maybe 3 or 4 times the volume of the Pen F. The lenses for
> the E-1 too are smaller than equivalent lenses for film by other
> manufacturers, but not a whole lot smaller.
>
> I wouldn't mind seeing something the size of the old Pen F system
> coming out, with all the extra space that they didn't need for all
> the huge film volume and gate (!) being used for some miniaturized
> electronics. And, since the lenses only have to cover less than 60%
> of the area that the Pen F lenses did, they don't have to be as big
> as the Pen F lenses!
>
> Yes, yes, yes... I know a number of reasons why we have hulking
> monsters like the Canon 1D, but a lack of commitment to compactness
> has overtaken the industry since Pentax with the MX and Olympus with
> the OM system stopped being major players.
>
> Where is Maitani now that we really need him??
>
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