Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair, IMO the noise it is no too much noticeable and is a nice picture cheers Lluis El 22/04/2011, a las 7:07, afirkin at afirkin.com escribi?: > Well, I suppose I am about to find out. The upcoming trip to Kenya > made me > think seriously about my SLR. Taking the Leica meant no backup other > than > film or invest more in the DMR system. > > All cameras have inherent strengths and weaknesses. There is a > reason that > Leica has stuck with CCD sensors but the DMR does have some 'handling' > issues. I was eventually convinced that the weaknesses out weighted > the > strengths for a trip to Africa and began to look at alternatives. This > began seriously in October last year and I have gone from Sony to > Olympus > to Pentax to Canon and finally to Nikon, and the D3s arrived 3 days > ago. 2 > days later I had a lens and could begin to 'play' with it. > > If there is interest, I will happily 'bore' you all with the reasoning > behind the change, and the results of my initial exploration. > > I have not sold the DMR or any lenses, and I hope to run a few side by > side trials, both using L v N glass and L glass on both. This will > NOT be > Puts like, but a more practical low gut like investigation, perhaps > supplemented by some side by side prints. > > I will say, that day one would suggest that the sensor handles noise > in a > remarkable way. An example: this image straight from the camera via > LR. > > http://tinyurl.com/3nr9zwq > > Cheers and here's luck > > Alastair > > > >> On Apr 21, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> On all accounts the results and handling of a D3s is going to blow >>> the >>> DMR >>> out of the water. >> >> Seems a bit overstated. >> Have you ever "handled" either a D3s or R8-9/DMR Mark? >> Have you ever viewed a DMR RAW image file? >> Have you compared dynamic range or fine detail in RAW files from both >> cameras. >> >> Without doubt the D3s has capabilities which the R8-9/DMR does not. >> And the R8-9/DMR has handling characteristics which the D3s does not. >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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