Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt: >What if the >Nikkormat with a 50mm f2.0 provided a better finished product than your >M8? Think there is a chance of that happening? I don't have an M8. But if somebody wants to give me one, I'd be happy to test it against all the older cameras I could get my hands on. :) If an older, film camera produces a better finished result than an M8, I would suggest buying that older film camera and not having to worry about IR filters. Right now, at this point in my life, the better finished result for me will come from a digital camera. I don't have a local, reliable lab. I don't have time to do my own processing. I don't have the equipment or the desire to do color processing. So for me, at this point in time, digital is my best solution. That said, if I could see night and day difference in finished prints of my normal subjects between my current equipment and other digital equipment, I would probably start figuring out what I'd need to do to switch over. At this point, I think that competent photographers can make fantastic prints using the brand of their choosing. I suspect that we'd have a hard time telling the Canons from the Nikons from the Olympus from the Pentax from the Minolta from the Leica judging only by prints. I believe you'd see more of a difference based on how the print is made, and not what captured the original image. -- Eric http://canid.com/