Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] Random observations on resolution (long and irrelevant to the craft of being a good photographer)
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:17:58 -0400
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Thanks, Geoff. That?s good to hear. And I also appreciate your response to 
my earlier about vignetting and autocorrection. I?m just starting to explore 
doing correction in post-processing.

Makes you wonder what kind of images an M960 with the 50 ?cron asph would 
produce!

?howard


On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:10 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi again Howard. I have and shoot with the M (typ 240) and the Nikon D600
> which have the same sensor nominal resolution of course. Shooting with
> their native 1.4 50's in comparable conditions the Leica results are very
> clearly superior, (as they ought to be on dollars of course). But they are
> systems with different strengths.
> 
> I shot a few hundred frames with a borrowed S side by side with my M
> recently too. again very obviously superior if you want to peek at original
> size.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
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