Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What about using Leica R lenses on Canons? That gets old fast? mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:20:34 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: 747, Make it happen > > Mark, > > I think it's a case of "good enough" for most uses. Most > photographers don't examine their photos at 100% edge to edge and > don't need to. For a small reprint in newspapers and magazines or on > the web, Canon photos are "good enough"; but stock photographers > submitting to agencies know that their photos will be examined that > way and rejected if there are problems. The Alamy forum has > complaints daily from people who are not able to get anything to pass > Quality Control. I used to have problems with the Canon lenses, too, > and had quite a few failures. Since I started submitting M8 photos, > I have not had a single photo fail Quality Control. > > Also, some Canon lenses are worse than others. The 16-35 zoom is > absolutely awful. The 24/1.4 L is pretty bad. Wides are much worse > than longer lenses. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > > > At 12:34 AM 12/16/2008, you wrote: >> I'd be glad to be using an M8 if I had one but most working photographers >> out there by far are using Canons turning in Canon pix day after day. >> What do they think I wonder about these chromatic aberrations and >> distortion >> on the edges? >> You look at a picture anywhere and odds are it was taken with these >> cameras. >> How do they all get it under control? >> Do they just ignore it? >> What's their work around I wonder? >> >> >> >> mark@rabinergroup.com >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information