Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] a serious question
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Sep 25 19:41:28 2008
References: <7A863272-CCBA-4DC5-84E9-0E546CDF201E@mac.com> <72pvh6$1eg59h@pd2mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca> <200809251625.BAR31663@rg4.comporium.net>

Tina,
Both are tools, and each has its place for convenience and usefulness. I
doubt that anyone can make out the difference between the cameras in a print
or published photo, though.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

> At 12:02 PM 9/25/2008, you wrote:
>
>> If this makes me a bitcher? So be it, as I feel I've earned a spot to do
>> so
>> after all the faithful years of always working with 3 M's and 3 motor
>> driven
>> SLR's as the assignments dictated. I'm still a believer and extol the
>> Leica
>> quality and where, when and why one should use an M camera. But the
>> yearning
>> for new bits is pretty low to the barrel bottom at the moment!
>>
>> ted
>>
>
> But the bottom line, for me, is when I compare the photos from my M8 to my
> photos from my Canon 5D or my Canon 1DMII, there is no question about which
> is best.  People on other e-mail lists are complaining about fringing,
> chromatic aberrations, and soft focus from the newest offering from Canon
> and the solution that some offer is to "fix it in Photoshop."  Leica 
> digital
> files don't need fixing.  I'll eat beans and rice and wait months or years
> to pay for that quality.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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