[Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Impatient?
Impatient for a  13.8 mm x 20.7  sensor size which is what's in a Sigma
DP1/2?

On a camera that size I'd like half frame;
An 18 x 24 mm sensor size.

until they figured out how to fit one in bigger;
Say a 24 x 36 sensor size.
Which I'm sure in two years they'll have.

We need a digital Rollei 35.



Mark William Rabiner



> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:14:45 +0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus Pen 50 years
> 
> There's always the Sigma DP1/2 for the impatient...
> 
> Personally I'm not holding my breath, though. Even if they do release
> a digital Pen like the photokina concept, it won't have an optical
> finder. And that to me is a big no-no.
> 
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Bigger is better but there are times when you go for compactness.
>> There's no point in having a camrea body the same size as another
>> camera
>> body with it only being able to shoot a format half the size.
>> Half frame cameras and lenses were half the size of normal 35mm gear.
>> 72 on a roll.
>> Pocketable.
>> Its use was a whole different thing.
>> If I had a strict bigger is better thing going I'd be shooting
>> sheet film
>> not roll film. And renting digital backs for the camera. Which in
>> my case is
>> a Calumet Cambo NX which I only have one lens for. A Fujinon 210. 5.6.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner