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Subject: [Leica] Review of Fuji's new X-E1 with zoom lens. RICHARD
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:06:44 -0800
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My logic is that the Sony RX full frame compact is not as compelling as if
it was released 3 years ago.

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:34 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

> Richard, you logic escapes me here - and Mark we'll get you on this ;-)
>
> If as you say APS has progressed and can rival with a D700, remember the
> D7?0 is discontinue; Nikon has since released the DXOO that surpasses the
> current APS offering ...
> CQFD
>
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
>
> Le 11 nov. 12 ? 21:10, Richard Man a ?crit :
>
>  Leica has always been about getting that last 5%. OTOH, for certain
>> subjects or certain people's way of working, they can't get that 95%
>> anyway
>> with Leica, hence the "best camera" won't do squat.
>>
>> So... looking at pure "bigger is better" viewpoint, the Sony RX is very
>> appealing, since it has a 35mm full frame sensor. However, the sensor
>> manufacturers have demonstrated that today's sensors can vastly outperform
>> even sensors from a generation. i.e. did you think the D700 images were
>> great?! Well, now you can get similar quality from an APS sensor and so on
>> and so forth.
>>
>> So I'm afraid the time for a full frame "compact" has passed. If it was
>> released 3 years ago, people would have flocked to it. Now? When you can
>> get APS cameras with almost similar quality and other convenience, what
>> would be the point?
>>
>> --
>> // richard 
>> <http://www.richardmanphoto.**com<http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>> >
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