Gulliver's Travels were too far back I guess. Although I've heard
"Brobdingnagian" before and could infer its meaning from context I had
to go ask Wiki to be sure what it meant. :-)
While the 5D Mark II apparently offers even less noise than the 5D the
same technology applied to 5D size pixels would allow that ISO dial to
go even higher. I might even give up flash... well, sometimes anyhow.
Dr. Flash
William Sommerwerck wrote:
> "When I bought OM in the '70s it was because it was smaller, lighter and
> cheaper. It seems that Olympus has
> lost its way on small, light and cheap."
>
> Smaller and lighter, definitely. But hardly cheaper. Zuikos were quite
> expenisve. And the dealer got only a 35% discount. *
>
> The Olympus ads for the Four-Thirds SLRs (I own an E-500) are comical. Even
> the smallest is substantially larger than a (motor-driveless) OM, and the
> lenses are (by comparison) positively Brobdingnagian.
>
>
> "I myself would rather see less pixels and better noise performance."
>
> The 5D mk II apparently offers both. Noise is not determined solely by pixel
> area. I'm wondering when sensor design will eventually bump into the laws of
> physics, and no further meaningful improvement will be possible.
>
>
> A comment about English grammar... The principal difference, as I see it, is
> that English is nowhere nearly as inflected a language as most others. For
> example, in some languages (such as German) you can say what, in English,
> would be "The fish ate the woman", but the declensions indicate that it is
> actually the woman doing the eating. There is simply less one has to learn
> about how an English sentence is to be constructed.
>
> * At that time, Olympus was imported by Ponder & Best -- I think. If so,
> there would have been additional discounts for quantity purchases.
>
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