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Subject: [Leica] Elmarit 19 R comparo on M8 and G1
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed Jan 7 23:53:15 2009
References: <200901080338.n083bIk5006523@server1.waverley.reid.org> <1A3ECC96-44F6-40E5-87AE-92CAD12DD47F@netvigator.com>

Comment: you are mad :-)

But then again, I am hacking (well someone's doing it for me) a 35/2.8
Distagon Shift onto the XPan, so I am just as mad!

Looks quite nice. That's a good not-quite-wide focal length for the G1....

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:17 PM, H&ECummer <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
> Here they are:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/G1Elmarit19w.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9rzh27
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/L8Elmarit19Croppedw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8n8zj4
>
> The venerable 19mm Elmarit on the M8 and the G1 - both shots at f8.0, ISO
> 160,
> White Bal sunshine. Both cameras on a sturdy tripod.
>
> Focusing by screen on the G1, by depth of field (infinity at f8.0 on the
> depth of field scale of the 19E when on the M8)
>
> No processing done just resizing the M8 image to be the same crop as the
> G1.
>
> Full screen on my 24" i Mac - the M8 records a warmer image but the G1
> seems a tad sharper in the centre but the M8 corners (in the cropped image)
> are perhaps sharper.
> Whether this is from accurate focusing or other factors, je ne sais pas.
>
>
-- 
// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
// b: http://rfman.wordpress.com

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