Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:37:31 -0400
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Examine the photos at 100%.  That's what is necessary to submit to stock
agencies.  If you don't care about that, it's fine.  When you examine corner
to corner at 100% you find all kinds of nasty surprises.  Doesn't matter
unless you plan to sell them or print them big.

Tina

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> I need to find a web site to show me what to look for.  I have the Canon
> 16-35 2.8, the 24-70 2.8 and the 70-200 2.8 and some primes and don't see
> any of these things.  I have some default sharpening presets in ACR, but
> they are capture sharpening.  The 5DII allows you to set the sensor to lens
> distance for each lens, which does help somewhat.   I have seen some
> fringing under extreme backlighting, but no surprises there I guess.  Maybe
> it's something that just occurs wide open - I usually stop down a little if
> I can.  Just curious.
>
> Ken
>
> On 10/18/2011 4:58 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> That's my issue with Canon lenses.  Awful purple fringing on every wide
>> angle shot.  Not to mention problems with auto-focus that make manual
>> focus
>> much faster and loss of detail because of the AA filter.  Nobody on the
>> stock lists believes me when I talk about how much better Leica lenses
>> are.
>>  Nobody cares.  Canon is good enough, I guess.  Not for me.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, R. Clayton McKee<rcmphoto at yahoo.com>**
>> wrote:
>>
>>  From: Chris Williams<zoeica at mac.com>
>>>
>>>  Yes true but this thing is made for AF and brags about it when Canon has
>>>>
>>> had many known
>>>
>>>> AF issues lately.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yup.  Gonna wait for the Canon 1D-Xn with All New Focusing AutoFocus
>>> Action.  And then buy Zeiss glass.  For newspaper the fact that every
>>> highlight is fringed purple isn't a huge issue.  For the web, nobody
>>> notices.  For real work... umm... guys?
>>>
>>>
>>> R. Clayton McKee
>>> PhotoJournalist
>>> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
>>>
>>>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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