[Leica] interesting essay about the potential of MF digital, and the difficulty of achieving it!

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

There is an interesting, long, essay here about one respected  
photographer going from 5x4 (4x5 to my US friends:-)) to MF digital  
which he shows is superior but much more sensitive. I read most of it  
yesterday and will have a new look at some of the examples today.
Anyway it demonstrates with example how good MF digital cam be, and  
how important (it seems to me) not having a AA filter in front of the  
sensor is.
cheers,
Frank

On 22 Jul, 2009, at 04:40, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I've been ragging about the 2x format being called a  4/3's open  
> system for
> years on the LUG as the bodies were too big for the format and there  
> was no
> justification for going down in format that early in the game not  
> that there
> is now.
>
> They've fixed that with the micro prefix tweak to the system making  
> for nice
> small pocket cameras like they should have been all along but I  
> still don't
> know why I need to be shooting half half frame format.
>
> Its like the silver crunch in the 1970's.
> They're going to give you a deal and sell you half the silver for  
> twice the
> money. Disk disk film during the silver scandal.
>
> Had the format been invented later on down the line when the sensors  
> were
> getting better and better it would have not smelt so rotten in  
> Denmark to
> me. Right now 1.5 is smaller than you want. 2x is great for people  
> who love
> 4x6 snapshots. I would think that would not be the Leica users group
> mentality for the most part.
>
> I love the Olympus Pen name and look. but that should in fairness be  
> an 1.5
> crop cameras. And I think sooner or later it will be.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:39:45 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 4/3's lens firmware updates
>>
>> So Mark, are you finally agreeing the wisdom of a
>> all-new-from-the-ground-up dSLR SYSTEM design? :-)
>
>
>
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