Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another example of purchaser justifying his decision? Sheesh, it's not a big deal. Go make some pictures. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com Original Message: ----------------- From: Richard Man richard.lists at gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:54:43 -0700 To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 - not much more expensive than M8? On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Geoff Hopkinson<hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Richard, did you chip a tooth or dent the new car or something!! ;-) Sheesh! > Time for a nice relaxing cup ot tea ;-) It's that $500+ (and climbing) vet bills for a rescued dog that some idiotic f*cktard dumped on the street. May that bastards... something equally as bad happens to them. > Strong low pass filter is an objective description of a design decision, > 'stupid bollock for having to fit a UV filter" is not quite ;-) Sounds the same to me: criticism on some design decisions. Everything is a compromise. > In case you are interested I shall repost the comparisons from Raw > conversions with different profiles and my particular camera. The target is > the industry standard Colorchecker card that Adobe uses to produce the > profiles for each new camera in Raw. The colour temperature was measured to > be very close to 6500K too. Those are objective, measurable results. Its > still valid to 'prefer' one result over another. On resolution, go and put > your E3 on a tripod, use its native ISO, set your best zoom to give you the > same magnification, (about 33mm to match a 50 on your M8), ?same > distance and use the same aperture (say f4 to allow for the zoom being > naturally slower). Pixel peep at 100%. Rinse and repeat with your M8. I rather peck myself to death with toothpicks and do these sort of tests. > On practical examples, I don't think I need to apologise. I posted 400+ in > July. You have prints from my camera in your home (or your cat's litter > tray??). What are you sending for the current print exchange cycle? Send me > a great example from your E3 too? It is a fine dSLR system. I admire > Olympus. What do you think you have been seeing? :-) Why are you trying to convince me that Leica is the best? :-) Have you have your cup of tea?!!! Must be those vegemites. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web