Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kim writes: > Can someone please tell me the benefits > of a digital M? It puts Leica on the all-important digital bandwagon. Kind of like a new cellphone that posts the all-important WAP capability. > ... it's just I'm not sure why everyone is so > excited with the prospect of a smart media card > M6. Nor am I. I'm still getting results from film that no digital camera the size (or the price) of the M6 would be able to match. Why pay more for less? > The digital photos I've seen so far, though > vibrant and have had lots of detail, seem somehow > different...I'm not sure how to describe it, but > they look kinda flat or lifeless...to me. Overall, digital capture produces a much more accurate representation of reality, like video (and especially digital video) compared to movie film. It may look flat because it has no grain, or because most of the photos you've seen are taken with the ubiquitous cheap consumer-grade digicam, and these digicams have cheap CCDs, poor image processing software and hardware, and cheap lenses.