Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/17

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Subject: [Leica] Camera-Lens comparisons
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:39:10 -0800

On Luminous Landscape: http://thurly.net/0bdu

Not a particularly well engineered comparison, but interesting never 
the less. It provides some insight into the differences between an M9 
and an MF camera (and incidentally, a Canon 1Ds III).

Some of the things they discovered are well known to users of Canons 
and Leicas; ie, there is a 'veil' over the Canon images, and post 
processing cannot achieve the accutance of the M9 images. Also, 
putting a 24-105 zoom on the Canon is just giving away way too much 
when the Leica sports a 50 ASPH.

But basically, an M9 can, with good technique, stand up quite well to 
MF at sizes up to A3+.

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