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Subject: [OM] Re: (OT) Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 Review
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:13:25 -0700
The 10MP sweet spot is available now on 2x3 sensors. There is the  
Sony, and the D200 and probably the D80 being announced this week. If  
you really like the  4x3 format you will cut off the ends and get  
about 8MP, or not enough difference to worry about. If you are  
waiting for 10MP 4/3 camera you may have to wait another generation,  
I think, unless you expect to pay a price similar to one of the  
current 12 MP cameras which can give you the resolution you want with  
the ends lopped off.

There is just not that much difference between 8MP and 10MP. There  
are enough comparisons in the dpreview.com reviews to make that  
clear. Plus there are other differences. The Canon 350D gets more  
resolution out of its 8MP sensor than the Oly E-330 gets out of its  
8MP Panasonic sensor and the Oly has moiree at the limit unlike the  
Canon.

Limiting yourself to a_camera_ with image stabilization seems to  
really restrict your choices when cameras without it can offer it in  
their lenses. 90 percent of the DSLRs sold currently are Canon or  
Nikon. They offer that feature in selected lenses where it makes  
sense and the few comparison tests have shown that it works better  
than sensor plane stabilization. In addition, all indications are  
that the next two years will be a competitive bloodbath. If you can  
guess which of the makers of the remaining 10 percent of the market  
will survive that, you need to be trading stocks and making money.  
Most people seem to be betting that Sony will bite into Canon and  
Nikon a little bit and

So far Olympus and Panasonic have not solved the noise problem as  
well as some other makers. I don't think that is as serious an issue  
as some, but the ability to take previously impossible pictures is a  
persuasive argument from Moose.  Hoping that Oly will make a great  
leap forward by coming up with a higher resolution sensor with  
smaller sites and lower noise may be expecting too much of a small  
company whose research budget is geared to production that is a  
distant third to the big two makers.

I think Moose made a very rational decision getting his 5D. It gives  
him the resolution and low noise that he wants and you seem to be  
saying you want. Plus it has the ability to mount just about any lens  
made. And he is using it now.

The lens. The Panasonic with Leica lens has a price of $1900 which  
will be less on the street. A real Leica 28-90 zoom lens costs $3900  
at B&H. That makes it obvious that any resemblance between the two  
lenses is just in the logo they sell to Panasonic.  Doubt you will  
see any difference in the images from the Oly lens that costs the  
same without paying anything to Leica.

Why not a Canon 20D with an IS lens? $1500 at B&H. No waiting.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA



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