Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:40 PM, "jon.streeter" <jon.streeter at cox.net> wrote: > When I see Leica photos posted here, they seem to have a sharpness and, > sometimes, luminescence, beautiful bokeh, microcontrast perhaps, that sets > them apart from other cameras with sensors rated higher by DXO. But it's > hardly a meaningful test since I've been a Leica fan since high school, so > I'm biased. Furthermore, I know which photographs were done with Leica > glass. Still, they do seem better, and I'm curious about how that's > possible if Leica sensors are so low in DXO's ratings. Software? Lenses? > Superb photographers? or images as posted here, simply can not discriminate in the ways that interest you, the way a large print can. Steve > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9 > Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 6:59 pm > > > DXO labs have some parts which do not suit CCD (M9 and medium format), low > light/high ASA I think. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > > The dxo lab also said a Nikon D800 makes for better results than medium > format digtial. I'd just have to see that to believe and and am not > believing it. Are top pros really going to not go medium format now > because of that camera. I'm thinking it wont influence many away from > shooting medium format digital where it had been used before for 90 > percent of the stuff. > > I've head a medium format digital Epson mat prints in my hand at Photokina > a large print and it was exactly better than anything I'd seen full frame > as a medium format film out put is over 35mm output. > More so even. > > Mark William Rabiner > > _______________________________________________ > 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