Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] Leica lenses on Sony A7
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:53:32 -0500

Some really excellent shots. Especially at the bottom in black and white.


On 11/7/13 8:52 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep sure. As I mentioned it may or may not be significant (to the user and
> in the circumstance).
> Since this is a theoretical discussion with no-one having the announced
> cameras/system here, I was just commenting on a technical aspect of that.
> My post was intended to express that the best lenses to use can be the ones
> designed for the system, in my view.
> 
> 
> If you needed to increase the exposure in the main part of the field by say
> two stops for every exposure and apply a colour correction you would
> appreciate that the correction comes at a cost of dynamic range, tonal
> depth and noise performance for example. It's happening in the corners for
> every frame with wides on the M9. Does it matter in practice??? yeah no
> maybe depends ;-)
> 
> In the case of the M9, I can comment that the amount of correction with
> wider lenses is quite significant to achieve the desired result at all. I
> was a firmware tester for the system.
> 
> The M is another discussion. I just recovered a few poor exposures that
> were two stops or more under (albeit minimum ISO) with excellent
> results...remarkable.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/153233601
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 7 November 2013 23:25, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com>wrote:
> 
>> Only matters if the user/reviewer can see the loss of quality;
>> and/or cares about it.
>> 
>> a note off the iPad, George
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 12:04 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> losing quality in those
>>> corners
>> 
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