I've got mixed feelings about the 1.3 crop ... but mostly I like it. I really like that the 50 is a 65, which to me is the perfect long end on a rangefinder. 75 is about the same but you pay big bucks for it.
The 25 is my 35 and I may get the 28 which becomes 40 basically. For one thing the crop factor gives you frame lines up to 24 which are visible fairly easily, whereas the 4M-P is only good with 35 in the same way.
So basically it is easy to substitute one focal length down and get an equivalency with more depth of field.
I works for me.
If you drop by down here in Raleigh ... you can take my for a spin.
molson wrote:
Wait for the M9. If the recent rumours are true, it will have the 5D Mark II's sensor.
Haha are you serious!? I suppose all it will need is a new micro-lens design and no AA filter and they could use it... I'll be selling my 5DMarkII and all my lenses and getting the M9 if that is true. If I can get a rangefinder that takes equivalent shots to my SLR I'd switch in a heartbeat. The one thing that might hold *me* back is if they don't implement live-view, simply for the fact that I use it for checking hyperfocus and ND grad orientation in landscapes.
I've had to fight this built in control type of feeling inherited from years of slr shooting (or just my personality? ) where my approach has been to try to frame in the viewfinder (100 percent please) and see exactly what it is that I want. No this is a transition for me. what you see and what you get is very approximate.
I really do like being able to see around the sides of the framelines, I didn't realise how different that can be and how it may affect shooting style. The slr is like looking down a telescope. The rangefinder is more like the way it feels to simply be looking at things the same way as we are accustomed to and imagining (seeing in this case) a scene sliced out of that view. I don't want to overstate it but it for me really feels different from the ground up - about how one sees the world.
It is odd though that the framelines are so approximate. One type of coverage close up ... another farther away. So now 32... 34 ... 37 hardly a difference to me.
Od course keep in mind that these are the comments of someone very new to rangefinder life. They are no subsitute for slr's ... but I've found it a surprisingly pleasant adjunct to one
I for one would not want a sensor that looks like anything remotely similar to the 5D. The 5D sensor is fantastic, but then the M9 would give fantastic images (maybe - since the flange distance is so different) that look "me too", the same as every other cam. The M8's images are very different, right now ... and I really like that look - but especially value the choice without having to buy a a medium format back after I sell my cars.
But I think that the thought of canon pairing up is unlikely. It just seems like too much R&D for canon with no payoff - and why would they help, perhaps, make a competitor successful and take the focus off of their own products? I think that this rumor is simply a wet dream of those in the Leica camp that are pixel peeping chasers of more for mores sake. They have them there too. In spades.
Pavel wrote:
I think that this rumor is simply a wet dream of those in the Leica camp that are pixel peeping chasers of more for mores sake.
Not likely. If we must generalize, Leica users - at least those who are using the M8 - have next to zero interest in 5D-like performance. They value the performance the M8 gives now and want more of the same in a larger sensor. FWIW there are far more pixel-peepers here than I've seen in an "Leica camp". However I do agree the rumor is little more than hot air.
telyt wrote:
Not likely. If we must generalize, Leica users - at least those who are using the M8 - have next to zero interest in 5D-like performance. They value the performance the M8 gives now and want more of the same in a larger sensor. FWIW there are far more pixel-peepers here than I've seen in an "Leica camp". However I do agree the rumor is little more than hot air.
I think that pixel peepers are all over, the leica guys just don't admit it since their kind of photography is supposedly about "art and feelings"
