Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree, but if you were using 100 year old formula on the plates, it'd be blown away by the same camera with sheet provia. You can't update the sensor on the V blad in the same way you can change the film on the Deardorf. All things equal - if we used identical building blocks to make up the sensor area - yes, the bigger sensor would always win. That was the case with film, because more of the same stuff is always better. But this isn't the case, because here the building blocks aren't identical. The technology used in the V back is quite a way behind that on the D3x sensor. It's the same reason that the D5000 outperforms the D2x on basis of image quality alone; they may have the same pixel count, but there's been another five years of sensor development between them. I don't think anybody is going to say the D2x is great above ISO 800, whereas the D5000 can be shot all the way to the 6400 limit. And there it's only about a stop and a half behind the D3. (Heracy!) On May 28, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > A Deardorf 5x7 may have been made a hundred years ago its image > quality will > blow the hell out of any roll film camera made yesterday. > As will a Speed Graphic. With bad optics. > > Technology can only do so much to try to overcome format. > In the end it never even comes close to overcoming it. > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:42:35 +0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] VictorBlad >> >> The H backs are very different to the V back. Remember the V back is >> quite a number of years old, whereas the D3x is brand new. Most >> reviewers and experts agree that the D3x is the b > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein