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Subject: [Leica] WAS Canon Introducs 2 new digital SLRs NOW 12/16 BIT
From: simonpj at mac.com (Wyndham Pulman-jones)
Date: Tue Aug 23 07:46:15 2005
References: <BF30A23B.40E2%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Has anybody yet seen anything about either the technical aspects of the 
DMR's 16 bit capture (i.e. what that means for file sizes / resolution / 
etc. when importing for working under 16 bit in PS) or the actual real life 
benefits (dynamic range? colour gamut?)

Simon.

 
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, at 02:53PM, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> 
wrote:

>In the real world, Vick, the DMR has never existed.;-)
>BTW, for all the horse hooey yesterday about the worthless viewfinder in the
>new Canon, it's interesting to note the following:
>
>Leica R9:
>Viewfinder Field: 23 x 25 mm, corresponds to 93 % of the image area
>(96 % vertical x 97 % horizontal), in conformance with the
>standardized 35 mm slide format. Viewfinder Magnification: 0.75 x
>with a 50 mm lens set at infinity and at 0 diopter correction.
>
>Canon EOS 5D:
>Viewfinder
>? 96% frame coverage
>? 0.71x magnification
>
>So let me get this straight - the 5D provides MORE image coverage than an
>R9, and it provides .71 magnification, compared to the Leica M's stunning
>.72, and the R9s 'world beating .75, and yet the new 5D has such a poor
>viewfinder that it's not worth considering according to some here?
>Fascinating. Why do I have the feeling that if it was emblazoned with a Red
>Dot and the name Leica half the members of the list would already have
>orders in? (Except Doug, of course, because it doesn't offer 16 bit
>capture.)
>
>
>On 8/22/05 11:31 PM, "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> on 8/22/05 5:27 PM, Vick Ko at vick.ko@sympatico.ca wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it a DMR killer?  Or has the DMR already died?
>> 
>> Not for me.  The 12-bit capture is less than I'm looking for.
>> 
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>> 
>> 
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