Pellicle (great nickname BTW, takes me back a few years
), you have virtually nailed the macro benefits. The G2 I would swear I was looking through a mirror and pentaprisim. It really is that good. That is one of the biggest bonuses IMO. Compared to what I had in the way of electronic viewfinders.
What you see a lot now days is "I cropped this and that, etc". In the olden days
with K25 positive film, we didn't crop outside the viewfinder. The problem is, thats stayed with a lot of us. I do very heavy manipulation work, but for std shots, never cropped, not even with digital. Nothing against it, just a personal thing.
Love that comparison of the sensor sizes, thats excellent !! and well done. It shows that we have a really decent sensor size, but with the benefits of macro image ratio compared to the APS system. Still with very little noise at ISO 100 - 200. Especially if we don't like cropping.
ywen: Thanks and its a clip on attachment but with extremely good optics. Corrected for CA which is very important. The benefit is lens to subject distance when using the 45 - 200 zoom Pannie lens. Example would be the high ratio shot of the dragonflies head. The distance would have been around 150mm lens to subject for that ratio size with the lens set at around 100 -150mm. At 200 you will end up with a higher ratio of the ant up there. So lens to subject distance for the macro ratio is the main benefit. To get those ratios without cropping you would really have to use the Canon 60mm 5x macro lens and you would need to get really, realy close to the subject. Using the Raynox DCR-250, you don't need to get that close for a decent ratio. Con's, honestly can't think of any, thats being honest.
Sorry folks, favourite subject
. You can wake up now and again. Thanks.
Danny.