[LRflex] Re: Going digital - Advice sought [Private mail]
- From: Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:19:04 +0200
Hi David,
no problem at all on this side of the ocean :-)
thanks for the tips, advice, etc.
We might talk it over then.
Hope your flight will be OK
Till then,
I'm yours Leica's folly
Phileicangenieux.
David Young wrote:
>You asked, on the LRflex list:
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>>To Canon and Nikon users, mainly.
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>>I have had in mind for some time to go digital and was really attracted
>>by the Canon 20D (now replaced by 30D).
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>Hi Philippe!
>
>First of all, Xavier tells me that you and Alice are going to take
>the train into Paris, and meet us on Sunday! I think that's
>marvellous and am looking forward to it!
>
>I still think you're a little bit crazy to travel that far for
>a meet & greet with a simple Canadian, but I am pleased that you are
>doing so! I felt badly saying 'no' to meeting in R(h)iems, but it
>would have taken too much time out of our very short stay.
>
>As for Canon 20D's... I had one for about 8 months... and then
>upgraded to the DMR. I shot about 5000 photos with the 20D, and have
>12x18" prints on my walls, attesting to their quality with Leica glass.
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>Using a 20D w/Leica glass is not a betrayal... it is a financially
>wise choice. One I made myself!
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>The crop factor is significant ...if you are a big user of w/a
>lenses, it reduces their effectiveness significantly. If, however,
>you use tele lenses a lot, as I do for wildlife work, it can be a
>huge advantage!
>
>You mention your "decaying eyesight/focusing problems." I am at the
>same stage, just having been diagnosed with a "wrinkled retina". The
>viewfinder in the 20D is not up to Leica standards...being about the
>same as the Minolta-designed R3. Though you can focus on the screen,
>focusing is not consistent over the entire area... the further away
>from the center, the less likely manual focus is to be accurate.
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>I moved up to the DMR because I wanted something better than the
>20D. My first choice was the 5D. But, when I looked at what I
>would pay for the 5D, versus what I would pay for the DMR less what I
>could recover from my used 20D, the difference was less than
>$1500. (Now, that is much less, as the DMR has come down
>$1000!) For that money, I would gain a far superior viewfinder,
>better focusing and re-gain the auto diaphragm function, so I would
>not have to use stop-down metering. I felt it was worth the extra.
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>Do you have high speed internet access? If you do, I'll send you a
>.PDF file (283kb) of an article I wrote for the LHSA's Viewfinder
>Magazine on the 20D w/Leica lenses... called "The poor man's
>DMR". If you do not have high speed, I'll print out a copy and
>bring it with me. You may find it helpful.
>
>Doug Herr can tell you more about which lenses do not fit the 20D than I can.
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>I hope this information helps... You can play with my DMR when we meet!
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>Looking forward to the 17th!
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>Cheers!
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>David Young,
>Logan Lake, CANADA
>
>Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
>Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
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