Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Plastic skin tones, eh? Riiiiiiight. Keep telling yourself that. Perhaps in the way that some audiophiles find ways to criticize sound. I think I see things pretty well and I won't call the skin tones out of the 1Ds "plastic". It's just FUD. Adam On 2/3/06, pwerner@bluewin.ch <pwerner@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Glad to hear from somebody on this board who is a happy DMR owner. > > So am I. The low light capability could be better, but the image quality > is superb. I am not only talking of sharpness. Other DSLR may produce sharp > pictures, too (and skin tones that look like plastic). IMHO the outstanding > feature of the DMR is the color rendition. > > After having used Canon and Fuji Pro DSLR, for the first > time with digitals I found that the finished print had that "Kodachrome" > look, as opposed to the Fuji or Ektachrome colors of the competiion. > > Some may prefer a skin rendition that looks like plastic, I definitely > prefer the Leica rendition. > > As far as I am concerned, there is no need, right now, for a Mark II. > > I hope I do not start a flame war > Another happy DMR owner and "old hand" (May 2005). > > Peter