It is a problem. Canon seems to be among the smallest cameras. Nikons
while not as small can be light depending on the model, D50 and D80.
Both have primes from the film cameras still for sale new or used.
The problem with wide angle primes is that they need to be redesigned
to achieve those parallel light rays so that you do not get
vignetting and to reduce the color aberration which becomes more
apparent with digital. Those redesigned lenses if they are fast at
are big, expensive and heavy.
Some people like full frame and use older lens designs and either
ignore the wide angle aberrations or just correct them in post
processing which is easy to do. I think most end up buying newer
lenses corrected for digital.
My prejudice is that I cannot see buying a quick modern AF camera and
planting an old manual focus lens on it and screwing around with the
aperture to meter with it. As far as I know and I could be wrong,
Nikon is the only one to provide cameras that let you use older
lenses just like they were designed to be used with metering and
automatic aperture.
Now that there is a digital Leica that uses the original small and
very excellent lenses with no real compromise there may be a
resurgence of that maker's cameras for the very real need you
describe. Though it is a lot of money I think that digital
development has reached a point that you are going to see people keep
them a lot longer than they have for the past few years.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
> I am very much in doubt about any future involvement with Olympus
> DSLRs. I am starting to dislike the big size of the E-1 (I know,
> everything is relative), and especially the huge grip. Carrying the
> thing all day is no fun... And street photography with it is not the
> easiest of tasks. Also, I would very much like to use primes, and
> especially wide angle prime lenses.
>
> OTOH, the E-400 looks nice, and lo and behold... no grip! *That*
> might be interesting... We will see when the tests begin appearing if
> Oly has managed to contain the noise at 400 ISO and above.
>
> But... still no primes. Thus, I am also more and more leaning to a
> C*non digital back for my 21/3.5 and 24/2.8. Or a N*kon, with N*kon
> primes.
>
> Apparently, currently, you cannot have small size and primes at the
> same time - unless you buy a digital rangefinder, but these things
> are expensive ;-)
>
> Bernard
>
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