Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/22

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Subject: [Leica] M2/HP5 and Monochrom comparison
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:10:13 -0700
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I have to say I agree with this. Between the poor processing (for both films 
and the digital files) and the vast difference in the lenses comparisons are 
a bit pointless for these images.

For these images I probably would have tried 2500 ISO and up and maybe some 
filtering for all the films/sensors.

Personally, I don't like the old Noctilux with the MM that much at low ISO. 
With the sensor outresolving the wide open lens to that degree, and so much 
of the image OOF, the smoothness becomes excessive. With the new Noctilux it 
might well be different, as it is with the Summilux ASPH. There the parts of 
the image near the center that are in focus are sharp, and the sensor can 
make use of that.

In these images, the film just looks somewhat murky and lacks the crispness 
(with grain) that HP5 can deliver so well, and that can make the images sing.

Henning



On 2014-03-22, at 2:47 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:

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> That HP5+ looks just as badly processed as the MM files . . .
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> Marty
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Henning Wulff
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