Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]we have been testing the digital r back for the past three days and thought we would share some preliminary findings. leica usa has loaned us their initial pre-production unit and the findings have been quite favourable. we have thoroughly tested the unit attached to a g5 in the studio and on location. it has performed flawlessly using the imacon software. we have done side by sides with a kodak 760, a valeo 11 and a sinar 54. the unit exceeds the 760 and the 11 in colour and it is on par with the sinar. the imacon software in combination with the digital r is probably the easiest high-end digital tethered package we have experienced to date. we have not used the leica processing software because of time constraints (the photoshop plug in is rgb, so we choose the imacon because it has a cmyk engine but we assume it to be excellent based on the the overall performance characteristics. the major highlights (we will publish expande test results and images this coming week on the lug): 1. the colour in raw-file format is outstanding, better than any digital camera we have tested with the exceptions of the sinar system and the lumiere. fro practical purposes the only the sinar is equal. 2. the chip is very, very clean. noise levels at 100 and 200 are extremely hard to find, if at all. at 400 and 800 the chip is cleaner than everything we have seen of late. 3. the leica lenses in combination with the back offer unparallelled image quality in a 30mb file. we are testing with 60mm macro(3-cam), the 28mm pc, the 100mm macro and the 21-35mm zoom. we will publish our results after first sharing the information with leica, but from our experiences, thus far, the neagatives are very, very few. we have three photographers sharing the unit, so our experiences are quite diverse. our output people are the very best in the country using state of the art eval. techniques and equipment. stay tuned. falcon ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com