Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Close? Except that Leica M digital is 24 x 36mm's. And 4/3's is 18 x 13.5 mm. I think that's not close - that's far. But what it's not is a total embarrassment. It's a 21.6 mm normal lens and its a crop factor of 2 but at least its GOT a crop factor and somebody makes a normal lens for it. What's the crop factor on a G11 is anyone ever going to know? They don't even tell you what the crop factor is on these point and shoots. With a system in which a normal lens is single digit like an 8mm I cant even do the math on what the crop factor is. I only have two core processors in my Apple. And one may be rotten. But the price of a DMC-LX5 is $499. Usd. That's not quite the price of a lens shade on the M system but add a circular polarizer and it sure does equal out. Does it need to be compared to a camera body costing 8 grand which will have a lens on it costing another 8 grand? Is that helping anything putting them in the same category of any kind? Why would one want to insist that it did? -- Mark William Rabiner It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done... > From: James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 13:16:31 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] dpreview: Panasonic officially announces DMC-LX5 > premium > compact > > I think Panasonic is a victim here of it's own success. Who could go > back to the LX3 or LX5 after they've used a GF1 or GH1 or EP1 or 2 > with a 'real' sensor (half-frame I'll admit but capable in most hands > of equaling or better the results from APS-C DSLRs) which is not much > bigger than the LX cameras. I think the micro 4/3 bodies are about as > close as one can get to an Leica M digital without the expense AND > they can use M and R glass. > > Jim Laird