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Subject: [OM] Re: Interesting article
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:16:25 -0800
Oh, dear. Is Puts in his dotage? It seems wrong on so many levels  
that it is hard to know where to start.

Just for a start. The Leica was truly revolutionary. The film format  
was new and about one fourth the area of what most amateurs were  
using. Tight framing became an incredibly important issue because of  
lowered photographic quality. The Leica's main advantage was the  
small size and ergonomic advances in my opinion.  That is what made  
it popular. It also stimulated lens design and film development which  
eventually made 35mm film cameras dominant.

For someone to do the same today it would not be a 4/3 system which  
is not essentially different from anyone else's except for a slightly  
smaller sensor. Probably the new Fuji digicams come closer to  
parallelling the Oskar Barnack revolutionary innovation by getting  
good enough image quality out of a tiny sensor in a small camera you  
can stick in your pocket.

Then again it is probably an Olympus camera that fulfills the role of  
a rugged, easy to use, sort of Leica sized camera, but not the E-1.  
The C7070 series that has proved itself with award winning pictures  
in Iraq performing the news camera function that the F and M Leica  
cameras did.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Jan 8, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Richard Lovison wrote:

> I came across the following article that I thought would be of  
> interest to
> fellow Zuikoholics.  And of course feel free to tear apart anything  
> untrue
> or not to your liking. :)
>
> http://imx.nl/photosite/comments/c007.html
>
> Richard
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