[Leica] First official M(240) shots

[roark.paul at gmail.com (Paul Roark)]

philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:
> 6400 displays some banding - bad processing?
>

The deep shadow look is a major advantage of the M9 over my Canon 5D2.
 I don't have enough experience with CMOS to know if this is just
Canon or typical of CMOS.  The difference is that the Canon shows a
pattern when the deep shadows are radically expanded.  The M9 just
shows more of a heavy grain look; it's much more random and acceptable
to me.  My concern is that the pattern in the CMOS might be due to the
way the signal is off-loaded to the processor.  If so, it might be
typical of those types of chips.  I'll be doing some testing of a Sony
RX1 soon to see what it's deep shadow performance looks like.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com