Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/28
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Having the Fuji version of what I think is the camera being discussed here,
I would add one serious caveat:
Do NOT judge digital by the results you get with this camera; you are using
what is by digital standards ancient technology. Fun to play with, but
please don't look at your results and say 'digital sucks.' Instead, say
'digital sucked.'
B. D.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of George
Lottermoser
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:27 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Digilux Zoom. Was: Digilux use by professionals
Martyn Olivermartyn@wordspace.co.uk (Martyn Oliver)8/28/0210:23 AM
>Thanks, and thank-you, too, to the others who replied.
>
>My main question is how I go about setting depth of field without a
>fully manual setting.
You have no control over depth of field. Lighting conditions and the
built-in meter will determine
the "proper" aperture and shutter speed.
In manual mode you can compensate through 9 levels from (-0.9 to 1.5 EV)
and/or compensate flash
brightness from -0.6 to 0.6 EV. However you will no know the aperture.
>I'm also confused about 'white balance',
White Balance adjusts the color balance for lighting conditions. You can
choose:
AUTO, outdoors sun, outdoors shade, daylight flourescent, warm white
flourescent, cool white
flourescent, or incandescent bulbs.
>the concept of digital zoom as opposed to optical zoom (an innovation
Realistically the Digilux Zoom has only optical zoom capability. The digital
zoom feature simply
takes a hunk of the 1280 file size and makes it a 640x480 image. In other
words you cannot get
maximum file size out of digital zoom function.
If you do not have a manual for the camera - I recommend that you contact
Leica and get one.
Hope this helps.
George
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