Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Friends, I am fortunate to have both the Leica D2 and the Canon G5. Just for fun, I took them both with me this morning to make some family snaps at a restaurant breakfast. Both set for aperture priority, no flash assist and fine JPEG. Net? Resolution results on card are almost identical. On auto indoors with fluorescent and some mixed daylight from the east, color balance with the D2 is "cooler" than the G5, sort of like it used to be between Ektachrome and Kodachrome 25 years ago. DOF with the D2 at max extension seems shallower than with the G5, perhaps the result of a larger sensor size? The D2 is very camera-like in its operation, although I'm still getting used to the EVF. Its form factor is larger than the G5, but grips nicely due to the textured skin and feels substantial. The D2's EVF is preferable to the optical viewfinder on the G5. Menu visibility in the D2's EVF is excellent. The D2's basic controls are just like the film-based rangefinder camera, the G5's are a combination of radio buttons as well as two and four-way rocker switches, and there are a lot of them - generally a "fussy", non-intuitive human interface design. The G5 has very good battery life, the D2 less so, but both were adequate to burn through a 256mb card of fine JPEGs without going flat. If I could have only one, price no object, I would choose the D2. But factoring in the current street price, the G5 is about 3 x less expensive than the D2, so I would have to choose the G5. Both cameras make excellent snapshots, if that's what you're looking for. The D2 approaches being a serious work tool; only time will tell if I begin to use it in place of M or R systems cameras for other than amusement and family documentation. Regarding the other camera mentioned, I have no experience with the C5060, other than its designator is the same as the last four digits of my 'phone number. :-) Hope this is of help. Len Leonard J Kapner E-Mail: ljkapner at cox dot net Tel: (310) 377-5060 / Mobile: (310) 291-0140 - -- - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bob Adler Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:58 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternative to Digi2: G5 or C5060? Stan, I have the G5. It does RAW and TIFF. Photoshop CS supports the RAW and is great. The 2.0 lens is also useful for low light. The output is very acceptable to me. Shutter lag is not a problem; you just have to focus first. It has two custom setting, one of which I have set for infinite focus manually, so there's no waiting. I think I saw on a post earlier this week that Ted Grant has one and uses it successfully to capture his grandchild's basketball endeavors. If I'm wrong, forgive me Ted. I'm very please with the camera's electronics, optics, and output for what I use it for. I do prefer the solid feel and wonderful sound of my M's however :-) Bob - --- Stan Yoder <vze2myh5@verizon.net> wrote: > OK, the Canon G5 and Olympus 5060 have been > mentioned here recently as having merit. Any > consensus > about which is better, if at all? The G5 has a > 1-stop faster lens, which might make it easier to > put > backgrounds out of focus, repeat 'might.' Anything > the 5060 has that the G5 doesn't? > > From what I can read, the G5 only outputs in JPEG, > whereas the 5060 apparently will do TIFF and RAW > as well, eliminating compression artifacts. But when > I handled a G5 at a store I thought, repeat > 'thought' I was able to get a TIFF choice in the > menu. Anyone confirm that? > > Stan Yoder > Pittsburgh > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html ===== Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA rgacpa@pacbell.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html