Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] M9 - not much more expensive than M8?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:17:49 -0700
References: <C6A888C2.52C32%mark@rabinergroup.com> <96FF42E3-35B3-4711-AF85-17EFD909B5AB@mac.com>

Unfortunately putting such a back on the old 500 series (or even 2000 
series) is a waste of pixels. A lot of the old Zeiss glass just isn't 
up to the hi-res backs. Best bet would probably be to get something 
in the 16 to 31Mp range. Nice clean lower ISO stuff, as long as you 
don't put a 40 onto it, or expect top resolution from some of the 
other lenses at less than optimum apertures.


At 6:06 PM -0500 8/12/09, George Lottermoser wrote:
>I too hope to some day hang a digital back on my Hassy cm
>but we'll again only be using a fraction of our zeiss image circle
>
>Another interesting set of charts
>comparing formats
>and image circles
><http://www.stitchpix.com/image_circles.html>
>
>for your medium format drooling pleasure
><http://www.captureintegration.com/phase-one/new-backs/>
>
>the P65+ finally hits actual "full frame" 645
>(tears and drool flowing freely)
>
>Regards,
>George Lottermoser


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