[Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Ken,

Chromatic aberration, color fringing and the like aren't just a Canon
phenomenon. I've used Nikkor lenses that web reviewers everywhere rank
as "5 Star" (or the maximum of whatever their personal ranking method
happens to be). 

Hey, maybe it's sample variation, or my computer needs calibration, or
perhaps my eyes are bad, but some sure look more Comfort Inn than
Ritz-Carlton to me. 

I always chalk it up to the possibility that the reviewers never used
Leica, so their baseline is a little lower than it should be. :-)

Dave R   

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Carney [mailto:kcarney1 at cox.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:32 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon

Tina,

I know nothing about chromatic aberration, color fringing and the like
for
the Canon, even after looking on Google.  I have some Canon L lenses,
and
the full-frame Canons seem attractive.  Can you point me to some sites
or
images that would show the effects?  I am interested in things that show
up
on prints, say up to 16x20X.  Thx much.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:30 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon
> 
> At 05:22 PM 6/30/2009, you wrote:
> >Its a marvelous camera used to make countless
> >pivotal marvelous photos every day of the week which have become part
of
> our
> >collective cultural visual memory. And probably more so than any
other
> >camera. I think it deserves some credit and not this picky picky
stuff.
> >
> >
> >Mark William Rabiner
> 
> Well, it's full-frame all right so it shows up every chromatic
> aberration and color fringe and softness in all four corners of most
> of my Canon lenses.  At least with the 1DMII most of those are
> cropped off for you.  With the 5D I either have to crop them out or
> spend hours retouching the corners of the photos.  The card-slot door
> broke on mine about 8 months ago and I have bothered to get it fixed
yet.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
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