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Re: [OM] IMG: Spideys Are Back

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Spideys Are Back
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:36:33 -0500
Hi Ken,

Good luck in your future endeavors.  Since I have no marketing incentive, I 
will stick with my present gear unless something changes or breaks down.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Spideys Are Back


>> The Leica glass has its uses, and won't go away. But the increased DOF 
>> and
>> AF with the DZ 35/3.5 certainly make life easier when taking closeups. 
>> And,
>> don't let its price fool you. It is a fine lens that can hold its own 
>> with
>> the older Leica lenses that I have. The current Leica lenses, at 10 times
>> its cost, might give it a challenge. I won't be making that comparison.
>
>
> "Top Gear" has compared some of "yesteday's" race cars with today's
> stock sedans. It's rather amazing how well some of these low-ball cars
> actually perform today.  Although, it is true that today's cars
> perform very well, that may not necessarily be true under
> less-than-ideal conditions which the comparision was made. Just
> because a modern car does great on a flat track built out of a
> decommissioned airfield, doesn't mean that the car is going to do as
> well on rough or irrigular pavement.
>
> Same is true with lenses and digital cameras. Just about any lens or
> digital camera will match the top-dog gear under ideal conditions,
> it's when things get rough that the high-end gear starts to shine. The
> Leica lenses, once you start moving away from a certain style of
> photography, will come into their own and definitely draw the scene in
> different ways.
>
> I had this conversation with my wife last night as we discussed my
> future move away from Olympus digital to Canon/Leica. I've said that
> whatever I get must support my old legacy lenses OR be the equivalent
> of the Leica and Zeiss lenses. The modern Canon/Nikon lenses are
> great--as are the latest/greatest Olympus lenses. But they draw
> differently. I'm getting a totally different look with my old lenses
> than people are with the modern lenses.  A music parallel:  The old
> Zuikos are kinda like tube guitar amps whereas modern zoom lenses are
> solid-state guitar amps.
>
> Which, BTW, is the situation: All future digital camera purchases will
> almost certainly be Canon. The CDFO has spoken.
>
> AG
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