Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The reality here is that it's all about trade-offs - but hasn't that always been the case in photography? :-) Erwin's talking about the higher resolution possible with smaller pixels made me think about the fact that the Oly image may produce sharper and/or more micro detail than the Canon with its bigger pixels, but the Canon produces cleaner images - and that's important. On the other hand, the availability of those two f2 zooms raises all sorts of available light shooting possibilities that may well be worth the higher noise levels. Quite honestly, I have no problem at all working at 800, and can work comfortably, using noise reduction software, at 1600. So, as I said, it's all about tradeoffs... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Feli Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:40 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] For B.D. On Apr 10, 2005, at 5:07 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > Boy, there's a shocker!:-) There's only one problem with all of it, > and I say this as an Olympus whore - Shocking, isn't it? ;-) > thus far, the smaller sensor does seem > to translate into more noise at higher isos. It may well be that this > can be overcome, but there seems little question that at this point, > the Canon DSLR's provide the lowest noise levels. And that right there is my problem with the 4/3 system. I simply don't think they will be able to get the noise levels down, given the size of the chip, especially above 800asa. Both Nikon and Canon are struggling to keep things clean with the slightly bigger APS size. It a shame because it looks like a very nice system They recently announced a 14-35mm (35mm equiv: 28-70mm) f2.0 and 35-100mm (35mm equiv: 70-200mm) f2.0. No one else is making fast glass like that. feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information