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Subject: [Leica] Easy decisions for M9 or not
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:13:10 -0700
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On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>>> 48 MB files are the minimum for most.  More and more are using lists
>>> of acceptable and unacceptable cameras.  Leica M8s and M9s are on
>>> everybody's acceptable list.  Point and shoots are not.  Any cameras
>>> below 10MP are not.  They look at the photo's EXIF and if the camera
>>> is not acceptable, they don't even review the photo.  If you are
>>> very careful about how you interpolate, photos from a 10MP camera
>>> like the M8 are acceptable, but you can't do much cropping or high
>>> ISO work at all to be accepted.
>>
>> so this takes the place of..."whether it's a good photo?"   &
>> "whether it has anything to say?"
>>
>
> Nope.  In addition to "whether it's a good photo?" & "whether it has  
> anything to say?".  There are bazillions of photos saying something,  
> given a choice between a poorly-executed photo and another of  
> equivalent content, but well-executed, poor technique doesn't win.

of course not Doug, but the number of megabytes shouldn't decide the  
first cut...

like deciding on the value of a scientific experiment based on the  
size of the test tubes...

It may be correct for many great photos, the number of megabytes would  
be the least important criterion,


Steve



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> Doug Herr
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