[Leica] leica digital back-initial test results

[telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)]

on 4/9/05 3:09 PM, SonC@aol.com at SonC@aol.com wrote:

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> Probably B.D. with his usual adulation of Leica, no matter what.
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> SonC
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Nahhh... B.D. said it was vaporware.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


> In a message dated 4/9/2005 5:02:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> jls@runbox.com writes:
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> Falcon?
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> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans,  LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:  lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org]  On Behalf Of lennie
> falcon
> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 12:30  PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] leica digital back-initial  test results
> 
> 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.
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> the  major highlights (we will publish expande test results and images
> this  coming week on the lug):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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