Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Erwin Puts on the DM-R
From: FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)
Date: Tue Aug 30 15:53:19 2005
References: <200508302129.j7ULOn6B081491@server1.waverley.reid.org>

>Didn't Puts have some other article claiming that digital
>was going to require really good glass?  Hmmmm.....


This has been exactly my own experience with digital. Lenses that works 
very well in the SLR didn't so much in the DSLR. I'm speaking about full 
frame sensor camera -the only that IMHO have sense- where wides and 
extreme wides if they are not the crap that non users claim have a 
slightly worse output than in film. Consumers zooms that worked in a 
sufficient way on film showed much quicker  their limits in digital. 
There are many friends in the LUG that are using outstanding lenses made 
by Leica in Canon bodies with excellent results. I don't but for my 
laziness of losing  auto everything not for the quality that is, 
generally, better so I cannot understand these statements of Mr.Puts 
about the leveling factor of the digital sensor over the high quality 
lenses. I have found his test of high interest however he didn't used 
similar type of lenses mixing primes and zooms while the former are 
generally better than later. But in general agree with his conclusion : 
a DMR has the same quality level and it's not exactly poor- with perhaps 
better color -that a Canon 20D and, I'll add, than a Rebel XT with a 
cost of less than 1.000$.

Felix