Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14

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From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:12:06 +0530
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Peter,
Once you have a print it is impossible to identify the equipment - I have a
collection of close to 1500 prints, both B&W and Colour so I know this for
certain. I think it comes down to which system suits which need in a
photographer, and that is just about it!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> I recently visited David Young, who many of you know from the Leica-R
> list. David does wildlife photography. He's found that his E-3 with the
> Olympus 50-200 zoom gave him excellent image quality, and significantly
> more magnification per pound of gear carried. That "crop circle" has an
> upside--it doubles your effective magnification.
>
> David has three large (16x20-ish) prints on his living-room wall. Could I
> tell which ones were made with Leica equipment and which were with
> Olympus?  I couldn't.
>
> I can't agree with my friend Mark about the "crop-circle" thing.  It's
> about suitability for the job at hand, not suitability for everything.
> There are some things that are 1Ds Mark-whatever territory, and somethings
> that are Leica M territory, and some things that are Olympus territory.
>
> One thing that is true is that the 4/3 DSLRs didn't really give us the
> small and light footprint that was initially promised.  That has fallen to
> micro 4/3.  And for high-ISO noise, size does matter.
>
> --Peter
>
> Richard Man wrote:
>
> > B.D. still uses E-System, not quite a nobody.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You would have thought they'd have paid off some names. They usually do.
> > "they" being most camera companies. These people nobody ever heard of.
> Cept
> > their Mom's.
> >
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] (no subject))
Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] (no subject))
In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] (no subject))