Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The rez is low enough (small pix) with the very lowest ISO's that we could be looking at credit card pants pocket cameras and never know the difference. A real test would involve at least mid range ISO's like 400 and full rez results. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:12:51 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Comparison M9, R9 > > That's not wrong at all though. > The M9 file was much more blue, a little unreal. Just different > profiles. > The R9 file looked more natural but at the same time there was less > light in the blue end for the camera to work with. > > All that aside, Tina could be fooling you all with a Nikon Coolpix 990 > for all you know. You cannot tell from looking at a computer screen > what camera took what photo, so making a judgment as to what is right > or wrong is outrageous. If she had posted the original raw files, > maybe, but she didn't. > > Kyle's been wowing everyone with iphone and digilux photos for quite > some time now, proving that if all we do is use the electronic medium > for our work, then there's no reason to have more than 2 million > pixels. > > This can be proved with a D40 vs an M9 or an S2 or whatever. Get a > decent lens (one that doesn't have a wonky front optical unit nor any > decentering issues) of approximately the same coverage and aperture for > aperture, you're not going to see the difference on a computer screen so > long as the smallest sensor is the guide by which all the other larger > images are cropped. It's like trying to judge how good a camera image > is by looking at a newsprint photo. > > Phil Forrest > > > On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:27:32 -0500 > Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> If your picking a cropped file from a 5 year old sensor over results >> from a just out current full frame M9 with a 90 Summicron there is >> something wrong with the processing of the files. Or your eyes. Or >> both. Also something very basically wrong with the universe. >> >> It's like that Wolfgang Pauli guy says: >> "Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!" >> Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch! >> >> >> >> And in the movie "Rocky" 1976 >> Paulie: I want you outta here instamatically. >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >>> From: Gene duprey <grduprey at mchsi.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 16:57:55 -0600 (CST) >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Comparison M9, R9 >>> >>> Tina, >>> >>> It kind of re-enforces my preference for R8/9-DMR files over the >>> M8/9 files. Both are good, but the R9DMR beats the M9 as far as >>> color and dynamic range. >>> >>> Gene >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> >>> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>, "Leica Reflex" >>> <leicareflex at freelists.org> Sent: Saturday, November 6, 2010 >>> 6:06:03 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Leica] Comparison >>> M9, R9 >>> >>> LUG and Leica Reflex: >>> >>> Here are two shots from today. One with the M9 and 90 Summicron: >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/130103020 >>> >>> <http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/130103020>and one with the >>> R9, DMR, and 80 Summilux: >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/130103614 >>> >>> <http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/130103614>What do you think? >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information