Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My eyes again go right to the eyelashes... And start counting. In this example each eyelash seems to be pre calibrated with its own number on it. But wait! I pull back and .... I cant! Its a head and shoulder shot while the other one we were talking about was a waist up shot I think. So a direct comparison is out. Also this seems to have more light it. For more natural contrast And a probable higher shutter speed. Maybe enough to allow for some stopping down.. But really a shot which almost has a medium format feel to it. Overwhelming quality of image. 3d almost. When I get real impressed by a lens in the past its when I'm taking a loupe to an 8x10 or 11x14 darkroom print and checking out the eyelashes on a full length shot. You can see the person from toe to head. And you can still make out individual lashes. Print it 20x24 and you'd not need the loupe to count the eyelashes. With my 90 APO Asph and my Balcar flash and 100 speed tab grain films you could, Delta dawn or Fuji Acros. And an acutance developer dilution combination. Though Xtol 1:3 worked for me don't know if its quite in that category or not. But acts as though it does at 1:3. 100 speed color neg films were nothing to apologize about for such a thing. Or the slowest transparency films. I sure miss using Kodachrome 25 to test my lenes with. Mark William Rabiner > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:50:43 +1000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example > > Of course, the rest of the image chain also affects the quality. Most stuff > we post is hand held anyway. > Here's a printable sample for you to compare the Summicron 75 ASPH. or you > can pixel peep. > 100% crop (50% of the original frame) The file is still about 1MB for > anyone averse to larger files. > Caution file contains lady and beer. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ns/75sampleLARGEFILE.jpg.html> > or http://tinyurl.com/dlo5h6 if the longer link is broken. > -- > Cheers > Geoff > 'Life's too short for mediocre glass' > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > 2009/3/25 Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > >> While I do not disagree that it is risky to make judgments based on >> 800x600 >> pixel images on the web, I will still submit that I can see differences >> between good and bad lenses even at that resulution. At least we can >> regard >> them as indications. The final decision has to be based on a full-size >> image, as you say. >> >> My decision to buy an M8 was made after Hoppy the Aussie Leica Pusher >> e-mailed me some DNG files from his camera. >> >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> To me this is a scan of a size (1701 x 2048) which has some meaning; >>> Unlike 99.9 of the posts of the lug which has people saying: >>> "this lens took this picture ant that lens took that picture" >>> Then people I assume run out and buy the lens having seen the shot. >>> With rez good for a postage stamp. Could have been done with a cardboard >>> throw away digital camera. Once they start making them. >>> Looking at this image I get what I think is a real feel for the lens; >>> What it can do. Its real exciting and a real pleasure to behold. >>> >>> Is it the sharpest lens in the history of photography? >>> I think so. >>> >>> I'm looking at eye lashes; >>> Individual ones, you can count them. >>> And the split ends at the ends of them >>> >>> Indoors wide open hand held. >>> >>> >>> That's sharp. >>> >>> >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:57:19 -0400 >>>> To: <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example >>>> >>>> Just grabbed this one last night. >>>> >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/3358536031/sizes/o/ >>>> >>>> (Sure, it's handheld in room light at ISO 1250, so it's nothing like as >>>> preternaturally detailed as that frame Tina showed; but this shows the >>>> lens's usefulness for the way I've been working). >>>> >>>> This is part of the WFMU set I already pimped, so you needn't follow the >>>> link if you've already been there. >>>> >>>> By the way, about the M8 at 1250 -- does it seem to anyone else that >>>> high ISOs look a lot better than they did when the camera was released? >>>> I'm thinking they've done some firmware magic or something. >>>> >>>> -Jeff >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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