Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can sometimes see a difference between my Leica images and my Canon ones... and sometimes not.... it depends mostly on the direction of lighting, contrast, amount of fine detail in an image and f/stop used... It also depends largely upon the lens I'm comparing.... Some are easier to identify than others... I know for example that several of my Canon lenses have more veiling flare the comparable Leica ones... Most of all it depends on the size of the enlargement.... You are going to notice the extra detail on 11x14 or 16x 20 that you won't notice on a 5x7... but the slightest subject movement or camera movement can blur that difference... But it is based on different shots taken by myself of known subjects in more or less the same setting or lighting or better yet direct side by side comparison... If I'm looking at slides or negatives.... I can identify it in a second... I always have more wasted space around my M-images than my Canon ones.... I wouldn't presume to be able to do identify images taken by someone else of different subjects and in different lighting... If I were making the examples... I could certainly sway the results by picking out images that would favor one over the other... Duane Birkey HCJB World Radio Quito Ecuador http://members.tripod.com/~Duane_Birkey/index.html