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Subject: [Leica] Potential Pentax Purchase
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu Apr 10 09:38:37 2008
References: <C42314C9.9F456%mark@rabinergroup.com>

My sincere thanks to Mark R., Geoff, Alastair, Richard T., and Jayanand for 
their responses and suggestions.  While I won't follow all of the 
suggestions, the assembled information has been helpful.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Potential Pentax Purchase


>> Mark, I always enjoy your distinctive posts ;-)
>> There's a great deal more to it than physical sensor size though, and the
>> scalability of digital captures, signal/noise ratios, the camera's 
>> firmware,
>> the processing software etc etc.
>> How about what you want to shoot with it? If you like longer lenses then
>> your hobby farm size crop circle will be a positive advantage. All of the
>> makers have come up with a range of super-wides anyway. I suspect that 
>> fewer
>> people actually use their older lenses that nominally fit than the new
>> dedicated zooms with their new DSLRs. Maybe with the D200 and up your 
>> older
>> fine quality manual prime Nikkors are practical. Wanna buy some ;-)
>> snip
>
> Thanks Hoppy! I think the price point and size point is at 1.5!
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
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