Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a Kodak 14n - with 14Mp and no antialiasing filter, and believe me, with good lenses there is a world of difference between a 6MP and a 14MP image. The primary difference is being able to crop. Dealeras have been showing prints of everything from 1MP up in an attempt to lower the bar on image quality - but completely ignore the fact that you often can't get the framing you want at the time of the picture. The thing I find objectionable about most DLSRs is the use of antialiasing (fuzz) filters that degrade the performance of all of your expensive optics - requiring post-sharpening. That's where the Kodak excels - there is no automatic dumbing down, so sharpening, if any, is very mild. This arrangement, though, is not forgiving of cheap optics. But I suppose at the price where the camera sells, it's not a stretch to get a 28/1.4, 28-70/2.8 and 105/2. Since I bought the camera for less than an MP body, it makes Leica look really expensive. Dante On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Dan C wrote: > Is 16.7 mp even required? My dealer showed me two well made prints on > 13x19 paper of the same subject shot by a 6mp Canon 10D and an 11 mp > Canon > 1Ds. They were indistinguishable to me, and, I was told, to everyone > else > who made the same comparison. And they both looked stunning, by the > way. > So why 16.7mp? Is this just a marketing scam? When does it stop? > > -dan c. > > At 12:36 PM 21-09-04 -0700, Feli di Giorgio wrote: >> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:04, B. D. Colen wrote: >>> Wow, you sure rack up those numbers fast...$1500 for CF cards? You >>> can >>> get a 1gig, 80x card for about $139 - call it $140. >> >> Considering that you can only get about 20 shots at full res on a 1GB >> card (1024MB / 50MB = 20.48), I would think you would need at least 10 >> of them. Would you go on a job with less than 10 rolls? A lot of >> shooters tend to "machine gun" their subjects these days and pick the >> "decisive moment" out of a sequence generated by a frame burst. Maybe >> you want to run in a dual card setup where the RAW files go to one and >> JPGS to another so you can transmit asap. >> >> >> >>> So even if you need >>> four of them, that's $560, not $1500! And disk space? I just bought >>> an >>> external 250 gig usb2/firewire drive for $299. Where are you getting >>> these numbers? :-) >> >> I would not trust a single drive system with a paying job. I would >> build >> a mirrored array about 500MB in size, which would be failsafe short of >> the building burning down. So, by the time you buy the drives, a case >> and a raid controller plus software you are looking at a solid $1000 >> bucks. $1500 may have been a little high, but you still have to figure >> out a reliable longterm storage solution and that's not a backup on to >> DVD/CD or tape. Maybe sending the frames to a film recorder as an >> additional safety precaution would be a smart thing to do... >> >> >> >>> Yes, if you already have a fortune invested in an R system, and don't >>> want to dump it, then it might make sense to go with the back...But >>> if >>> not...My point is that you were saying the full-frame Canon is >>> expensive, when in fact it offers infinitely more in the way of both >>> features and image potential than the R back, yet is virtually the >>> same >>> price as the R back. So if the Canon is over priced, what's the R >>> back? >>> ;-) >> >> >> I never compared it to the R-back. To me that's a whole different >> ballgame. And if I was a shooting pro I would have serious concerns >> about using the R-back on a daily basis as my main or perhaps only >> body. >> If I was using a camera which is entirely electronic and sensitive to >> dust and moisture I would want as much sealing as I could get and that >> means buying a pro level Nikon or Canon. >> >> >> Feli >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > ____________ Dante Stella http://www.dantestella.com