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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:46:44 +0530
References: <5B3BE8F1-E7F1-4381-A40E-627A6AD70682@mac.com> <CAC4CD11.15AF5%mark@rabinergroup.com> <CAH1UNJ2doe-tx0P19B4KNLZVLNQDw4BK632_JDuDWn1=q_PJRA@mail.gmail.com> <B770C212-4ED5-4C0F-80DC-52658D833F60@mac.com>

George,
Only you and James Nachtwey would know the answer.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:04 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> > I agree 100% with Mark. Its about results, not pixel peeping. That is a
> > subject reserved for all of us to endlessly debate.(-:
>
> Of course it's about the "results,"
> whether one uses 80 mp medium format backs or a Diana.
>
> Yet when we purchase a lens and can't stand looking at the pixels
> that lens produces - then we're not getting the "results" - are we?
>
> The fact that a famous photographer uses a lens with the same name and
> numbers
> does not mean our copy of that lens is automatically a wonderful performer;
> or make our photographs into his famous photographs.
>
> Why would I shoot with a 16 - 35 canon on my (then 10D and 20D)
> when the 10 - 22 out performed it by a mile
> or on the 5D
> when the
> 21 SA R,
> 24 elmarit R,
> 35 summicron R,
> 35 summilux R,
> 28 elmarit and summicron,
> 35 lux asph
> shot the pants off it
> and
> even the lowly 15mm Wide-Heliar put it to shame?
>
> Y (and Natchwey's) MMV
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
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>
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