[Leica] Re:second thoughts about digital

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

In a message dated 5/27/05 5:21:24 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> I have a D70 as well, and still shoot alot of film. For me, the D70
> excels for family gatherings, flash pics and futzing with my studio
> lighting experimentation. The studio strobe futzing is for learning,
> and then it's a cutover to B&W film.
> 
At the newspaper where I work they have had nikon D1h cameras for a couple 
of 
years ($500????wow! That's depreciation!) and have recently switched to 
Canon.

I don't care which they use, I am talking here about a display of photos 
taken with those cameras for news shots that they have posted on the wall, 
printed 
with a $5000 somesortof printer they use, pretty expensive stuff, all in 
all, 
so I have to assume that these are as good as it gets for digital prints.

I am not impressed.

they lack the "bite" of a good color print from film, the colors are 
slightly 
muted, the images lack definition. They are somehow smoother, which gives 
them a nice look but when you look closely, they are not sharp, not as i 
expect 
them to be. Maybe it is not sharpness so much as lack of an appearance of 
sharpness.

I do not say this to the fotogs, who call me an old fuddy duddy for using my 
leicas (m2, m3, r3, cl and olympus xa, which leitz should have made) but my 
black and white 11 by 14s are a LOT sharper and crisper, detail in small 
things 
much finer.

just an observation. 

c trentelman