Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very egg-citing... Bob Adler > On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > Alamy has just started accepting photos made with an iPhone - only iPhones, > not Androids. I went out yesterday and got an iPhone 4S - haven't figured > out how to use it yet, but it is certainly better than my old cell phone. > It cost 99 cents. I took photos of my chickens this morning. They are > still in the phone. Soon I will figure out how to get them out of the > phone and onto the internet. > > Tina > > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Um, when I use my 4/3 rd Oly or my Pentax Kr DSLR (which is not too often >> anymore) and now my Sony A7r, I DON'T LEAVE IT (my M9) AT HOME. >> >> Nope, it comes to the party too. >> >> Sometimes, I shoot with my half-half-half-half-half-half-frame camera that >> came on my phone, even if I did have ten cameras and thirty lenses within >> reach at the moment. >> >> http://sonc.com/look/?p=3172 >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com >>> wrote: >> >>> OK lets see I've gone out and spent seven grand usd on a Leica M40 to >>> enable >>> my tens of thousands of dollars of Leica glass but wait! Its a bit >> heavy!! >>> I'll just have to LEAVE IT AT HOME and carry a camera two formats smaller >>> instead! Nobody can tell the difference right! >>> NOT going to happen. >>> And if nobody can tell the difference why am I so heavily invested in >> full >>> frame? >>> >>> By the way there is a format between 2x and 1x corp. and Its 1.5 crop and >>> remains the most popular selling of DSLR cameras and certainly gives more >>> bang for the buck than any other format and lits looking like mirrorless >>> soon too. Many of these cameras exist in systems where you can use your >>> full >>> frame glass on them. They are nicely just a bit lighter and smaller. They >>> don't seem like something which came out of a box of Cracker Jacks. And >> in >>> a >>> studio strobe or otherwise non low light situation especially where you >> can >>> use the lowest iso' s they really may not tell the difference so much. >> Like >>> on the beach. At high noon. >>> But to split that in half and go further smaller with the inane 4/3's >>> format >>> calling it comparable to the work of top full frame cameras is really too >>> much. >>> A really great use for a camera half half frame (2x crop) is to put in >>> your >>> jeans pocket like a Minox which it would hopefully be the same size as. >> Or >>> the same size more realistically of a Rollei 35. Which come to think of >> it >>> is a full frame camera. >>> In other words a near sub compact format sensor belongs in a near sub >>> compact camera body.. >>> >>> >>>> On 2/25/14 9:58 PM, "Jim Laurel (gmail)" <jplaurel at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> My photography interests are pretty varied so I'm maintaining a >> complete >>> Leica >>>> M9/M240 digital system, a Canon 5Dmk3 system, and a Micro 4/3 system >>> with the >>>> Olympus OMD EM-1. We do a lot of diving and my wife insists on a >>> full-frame >>>> system so she uses the 5Dmk3s, but I think she is slowly succumbing to >>> the >>>> siren call of Micro 4/3 because it is getting increasingly difficult to >>> tell >>>> the difference between our results underwater, not to mention that the >>> many >>>> usability advantages of the EM-1 often make it easier to get the shot >> at >>> all. >>>> It's no wonder they are currently outselling DLSRs by 6 to 1 for this >>>> application. I can choose to either use my EM-1 or our 2nd 5DMK3 body >>>> underwater, yet I choose the M4/3 simply because of usability, which is >>> a huge >>>> asset in that environment. Quality is already good enough with the EM-5 >>> and >>>> even better with the EM-1. Frankly, people are incredulous about the >>> results >>>> we are getting with M4/3 underwater these days and many are rethinking >>> whether >>>> the better IQ of full frame is really worth the incredible hassle and >>> expense >>>> of getting it to some of the more remote diving destinations. >>>> >>>> I'm trying to do more landscapes these days, especially infrared >>> landscapes. >>>> So when I have the luxury of working out of a car, and weight doesn't >>> matter, >>>> I have started to use the 5dMK3 system again. In fact, I just added the >>> 17mm >>>> and 24mm TS-E lenses to our kit for just this purpose. Also, we are >>> preparing >>>> to do some landscape astrophotography and the Canon is simply the best >>> tool >>>> for the job. >>>> >>>> With the advent of the Leica M240, the M system finally becomes truly >>> viable >>>> for landscape work. The EVF means I can frame accurately and position >>> things >>>> like grads properly. The R to M adapter makes it possible to use >>> telephotos >>>> and focus them accurately. Unfortunately, it doesn't looks like it will >>> ever >>>> be a suitable tool for landscape astro because none of the M wide >> angles >>> (24 >>>> and wider) are well-corrected enough for coma to work well. >>>> >>>> The point of all this is horses for courses. If I'm on a dive trip, I'm >>>> shooting M4/3 both above and below the water. If it's nighttime >>> landscapes, or >>>> landscapes where I can accommodate the weight and bulk, it's the Canon. >>> If I >>>> were going on a long trip during which I was doing a lot of walking >>> during the >>>> day and wanted the finest IQ, I'd go for the M240. If it is a long >>>> through-hike like 800km on the Camino de Santiago, which is a mix of >>> candids, >>>> landscapes in all sorts of light in in all sorts of weather conditions, >>> I'm >>>> taking an EM-5 or EM-1. And for everything else, general shooting >> around >>> home, >>>> I'm usually grabbing the EM-1 just because of all the cameras I have at >>> my >>>> disposal, none are as flexible, easy to use or as fun to use as the OMD >>> EM-1. >>>> >>>> This argument that people have about full-frame vs APS-C vs M4/3 is >>> ridiculous >>>> because each of those systems has its place. Of the three, APS-C >> probably >>>> makes the least sense IMO, because it occupies this nether world in >>> which the >>>> smaller sensor doesn't bring any corresponding reductions in weight or >>> bulk - >>>> the worst of both worlds. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photographer >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> 1714 >> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information