Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR only rumors so it's ain't shite
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams)
Date: Thu Jun 19 21:21:26 2008
References: <CF2B1B59C6624D51BC48481232468942@xyw> <C4802804.113B3%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000201c8d25a$d33b0810$79b11830$@net><7D25B215-3044-4EF0-985A-659EB42C6476@comcast.net> <001701c8d28b$d933d900$8b9b8b00$@net>

Hey tell ya what, buy the 16mm 2.8 Fisheye for me and I'll not use my 10.5 
DX on my D3.

And I don't notice any vignetting on my DX lenses on the FX body, the 
fisheye will vignette on anything.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR


>I guess that while your explanation makes perfect sense, in practice:
> if I have the choice of either having a bigger file with more data in it 
> to
> decide later, on my computer screen what I want to crop,
> why would I want to initially crop in the camera and maybe miss something 
> in
> the heat of shooting?
>
> Vignetting in easily cropped out later...... which is the issue with DX
> lenses used on an FX body ( if I have the nomenclature correct...)
>
> I am still missing something.....
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
> The reason to publish FX and DX specs is the full frame Nikons can
> use the Nikon Dx lenses that were released before the full frame
> cameras came out. The D3 can automatically switch to DX mode when
> these lenses are used. Nikon hardly ever obsoletes their lenses. As
> Chris mentioned he can use his 10.5 MP fisheye on his D3 even though
> it was designed for the 1.5 X crop bodies.
>
> Len
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
>
>> Question:
>>
>> There appears to be a trend to publish the image (pixel) sizes of
>> the image
>> both for FX and DX formats....
>>
>> Why would any rational person use a DX ( smaller) format if he had the
>> larger format available to him?  ( It is called cropping..... in old
>> fashioned speak)
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal) ([Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR)
Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR)