Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica!
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 07:52:11 -0400
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For me, digital zoom is a bit like an automatic transmission (or a 
point-and-shoot function in a camera). It accomplishes one thing, a center 
crop of fixed size, effortlessly. If you can work a clutch and shift stick 
in your favorite image-processing program, you can have a crop centered 
anywhere, of any size, of any dimensions. And you get to work in 
raw/png/dng/tiff rather than jpeg.

I frankly, no pun intended, don?t see the allure. Except maybe that the VF 
crops the view as well as the sensor.


?howard

> On Apr1, 2019, at 1432, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> The new Leica Q2 has the following specs....
> 24x36 full frame sensor
> Sensor has resolution of 47.3MP
> Summilux 28 mm f/1.7 ASPH fixed, non-zoom, and non-interchangeable lens
> OLED viewfinder has a resolution of 3.68 megapixels  ( no optical RF or VF)
> 
> Internal cropping ( now referred to as "digital zoom") of this lens allows 
> for the following fixed equivalent Fl and resolutions.....  BUT for JPG 
> files ONLY!!
> Zoom 28 mm: 47 megapixels (8368x5584 pixels), 24 megapixels (6000x4000 
> pixels), 12 megapixels (4271x2848 pixels). 3 different resolutions, I 
> guess dependent on JPG compression ratios.....
> Zoom 35 mm: 30 megapixels (6704x4472 pixels), 15 megapixels (4800x3200 
> pixels), 8 megapixels (3424x2288 pixels)
> Zoom 50 mm: 15 megapixels (4688x3128 pixels), 8 megapixels (3360x2240 
> pixels), 4 megapixels (2400x1600 pixels)
> Zoom 75 mm: 7 megapixels (3136x2096 pixels), 3 megapixels (2240x1496 
> pixels), 2 megapixels (1600x1072 pixels)
> 
> DNG:  RAW files of 47.3MP  No Zoom at all.  Crop in your choice of LR, or 
> other.....
> 
> As long as you are happy to shoot JPG files, this is a fine set of specs.
> If you wish to shoot RAW images, not as much.... but you o get to crop in 
> your own HxW ratios and specific areas to crop.
> 
> If they would simply put a M mount on the camera, forget the AF, and focus 
> the camera on the Digi-M functions, it would be a fine camera for me.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 
> 
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