Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In all seriousness , no one gives a crap. Chris Williams www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 > On Apr 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > What I found was the DX format is two lenses away from full frame. So your > 50mm lens goes to 28mm passing the 35mm lens in effect. > But a 1.2 crop is one lens away for the most part. And I have that on my > D750 as an option which gives you framelines to look around like a Leica. > One lens longer. Way less pixels down the drain. And crop lines. > Way back I found the idea of throwing away pixels like that not for me but > when I tried it out on a D750, I found it very useful and fun and fooled > me into thinking I was shooting with a Leica M. > You also can crop 1.5 which is of course DX and very familiar; but the 1.2 > and that gives you a frame line like you're looking though a rangefinder > and tightens things up just a nice bit. I use it a lot with that camera. > The amount of pixels I'm still getting is still more than I used to get > with my D700 which felt more than fine at the time. And the prints I can > make are still in line with the biggest on my 17" Wide Format Printing > Epson P800. I print at 240dpi not 300. > So I'm not really shooting myself in the foot big time using other crop > options on my fairly high rez full frame DSLR. > I love seeing around the framelines thinking around the box. > > Now though I'm doing the rash thing by shooting with a Nikon D500 which is > a fast DX camera with no anti alias filter which encourages you to use > insanely high ISO's as if it's nothing. Noise is the brush stoke of > digital photography Man Ray could have said. > It does have this feature which gives you a crop frame line option. > Its result is my nemesis 2x crop as in the 4/3's format. I certainly > balked at that but do it from time to time when things are far far away > and I have not self-respect. I'd be cropping each like like a son of a gun > and no one's looking. Great fun. > Some day if I'm hanging a show of bigger than 17 inch prints I may regret > it. And wish I had some integrity. > I think though we greatly over estimate are rez requirements when we print. > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > > ?On 4/1/19, 10:36 AM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG" > <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > But it's really a 28/1.7, right? That crops for the other views? > > The added resolution also enables unique digital zoom capabilities to > simulate working with different focal length lenses: 30MP images can be > created using a 35mm field of view, 15MP images with a 50mm field of > view, > and 7MP with a 75mm field of view. > > Tina > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:20 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > >> I will need to find my way to a Leica store. That would fit the bill for >> 70% of what I shoot. >> >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 9:13 AM chris williams via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Awesome! They made a 21-35-50 Q!!!! >>> >>> Can?t wait to get my hands on one >>> >>> Chris Williams >>> www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com >>> www.zoeicaimages.net >>> 504-231-6261 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> > *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html > <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>* > > _______________________________________________ > 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