Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Red dot? On 8/25/16 6:36 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > >> On Aug 25, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >> >> ts very frustrating to me to run into people who tell me how excited they >> are about photography, image making and make long trips to make images but >> in a million years can't understand why they'd have to put down their >> iPhone >> for one second and maybe buy a camera. I'm meeting a lot of people who >> don't own cameras. > > OR > they may be using > a Leica phone > and you are not even aware of it. > > They have two to choose from: > > <http://www.gizmodo.in/indiamodo/Huawei-P9-With-Dual-Leica-Lens-Is-The-Nicest- > Camera-Phone/articleshow/53770018.cms> > > Now, the main claim to fame of this phone is its dual 12-megapixel cameras > on > the back, which use lenses by iconic camera brand Leica. And, if you use > the > phone and start clicking photos from this phone, image quality is > light-years > ahead of what you traditionally get from say an iPhone or the new Samsung > Galaxy. > > As they say, the devil is in the details, and the secret behind the superb > rear camera on the P9 is the combination of a RGB sensor and a monochrome > sensor, which allows the phone to absorb more light than its competitors. > Furthermore, the collaboration with Leica lends the phone two 6-element > Summarit lenses, which ensures, this phone just capture gorgeous photos. > > And when we say gorgeous, we don't mean unreal. We mean realistic photos, > with > true to life colours, accurate white balance and tonality something Leica's > cameras are known for > > <http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-cm1/panasonic-cm1A.HTM> > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/