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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