Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Q2 will will present an interessting artistic quandry of those who refuse to crop the sacred 3:2 format. Will throwing the switch from 28 to 35 or 50 or 75 be a sinful crop, or present a whole new holy rectangle? ric > On Apr 2, 2019, at 7:52 AM, Howard Ritter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information