Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its being mentioned as a digital Rollei 35. The Rollei 35 was a brilliant life support system for a 35mm cassette. 24x36mm format. And Zeiss lens. For prints as big as any from a full sized SLR. This camera is an insult to it. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:36:22 +0000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9? > > All things in proportion, it is large for a camera which fits in your > pocket > ;-) They say it is OK to 12"x17" prints..... > > john > > ________________________________________ > > I'm sorry but I don't call a 2.7X crop sensor a large sensor. I call it a > small sensor. Bigger than my pinky fingernail. But needlessly small. A > camera with a sensor that small I'd like the size of a classic Minox. > > Just because consumers buy camera with sensors the size of your pinky > fingernail does not me that a 2.7x is big. > > The least Rollei could have done with a camera like this is have it be 4/3 > 's 2x crop. The least. > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sony_rx100.shtml >> >> Sounds interesting. Shirt-pocketable is always a good thing. >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> >> ____________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information