Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:16:00 +0100
References: <C5EF221D.4BCC4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

While I do not disagree that it is risky to make judgments based on  
800x600 pixel images on the web, I will still submit that I can see  
differences between good and bad lenses even at that resulution. At  
least we can regard them as indications. The final decision has to be  
based on a full-size image, as you say.

My decision to buy an M8 was made after Hoppy the Aussie Leica Pusher  
e-mailed me some DNG files from his camera.

Nathan

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On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> To me this is a scan of a size (1701 x 2048)  which has some meaning;
> Unlike 99.9 of the posts of the lug which has people saying:
> "this lens took this picture ant that lens took that picture"
> Then people I assume run out and buy the lens having seen the shot.
> With rez good for a postage stamp. Could have been done with a  
> cardboard
> throw away digital camera. Once they start making them.
> Looking at this image I get what I think is a real feel for the lens;
> What it can do. Its real exciting and a real pleasure to behold.
>
> Is it the sharpest lens in the history of photography?
> I think so.
>
> I'm looking at eye lashes;
> Individual ones, you can count them.
> And the split ends at the ends of them
>
> Indoors wide open hand held.
>
>
> That's sharp.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:57:19 -0400
>> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example
>>
>> Just grabbed this one last night.
>>
>>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/3358536031/sizes/o/
>>
>> (Sure, it's handheld in room light at ISO 1250, so it's nothing  
>> like as
>> preternaturally detailed as that frame Tina showed;  but this shows  
>> the
>> lens's usefulness for the way I've been working).
>>
>> This is part of the WFMU set I already pimped, so you needn't  
>> follow the
>> link if you've already been there.
>>
>> By the way, about the M8 at 1250 -- does it seem to anyone else that
>> high ISOs look a lot better than they did when the camera was  
>> released?
>> I'm thinking they've done some firmware magic or something.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example)
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