Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 question
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Jun 17 23:09:12 2006
References: <1be504db0606171016t6ed9089eg5089648ffbe2036d@mail.gmail.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20060617111307.12391160@192.168.100.42> <6.1.0.6.2.20060617120957.123a4988@192.168.100.42> <4494C396.8090408@eth.net>

It is a wee bit over exaggerated, Jayanand, but it exists. It happened
to me once with my D100, but it came off easily with a standard
rubber-bulb blower.

But that is only once in how many years? I bought the D100 when it came out.

I always thought the strength of the 4/3 system was going to be a
standardization around lens mounts and things like that, allowing
manufacturers (camera manufacturers) to piggy-back on some standards.
It never really took off though. In the end, there will be three
standard mounts, just like there always has been: Nikon, Canon and
Pentax.

I have handled an E-1 at work (we bought one for a museum project).
Feels solid, the way you want a camera to feel. If the prices came
down I'd consider it, but that is what it would take to get me to
conisider Olympus. Instead of buying in to an open system, you get
locked in to an odd system.

Daniel


On 6/18/06, Jayanand Govindaraj <jgovindaraj@eth.net> wrote:
> I have the Nikon D70, live in an atrociously dusty environment, change
> lenses quite frequently, and I have not had to clean the sensor either!!
> I think this problem is a wee bit overdone.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> Chennai, India

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