Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dont you think, in the world of professional photography (Doug Herr excepted), that the DMR is irrelevant? If cost/benefit does not enter an equation, then it is just an instrument for rich amateurs to gush over each other, like Linn turntables or Lamborghinis - a status symbol, to be sold at a high price, in low quantities, to keep the cachet alive. Classic Hermes marketing. I have yet to read a comparision of the DMR with anything anywhere, either in print or online, in a non specialist site. A Leica rangefinder is pretty unique, a Leica SLR much less so. Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India David Young wrote: > Felix wondered: > > >>> What's the nature of the difference >>> > between the DMR and a D70/D200? >> >> Cost? > > > > There is, obviously, a firmware difference between the Nikon and Leica > digital cameras/backs. I like the colouring of both, though the DMR > seems to be closer to a Kodachrome... more muted colours than,say, > Fujichrome, but a wee bit more accurate, too. > > But the HUGE difference is that every APS-C format digital SLR out of > Japan has an Anti-Alaising filter, to reduce Moire patterns in the > photos. The DMR, in keeping with it's MF format heritage (it was > designed my Imacon - the big 6x6 camera back maker), does not have > one, and used software to solve the problem, if need be. As AA > filters work by making the final image a bit "fuzzier" (for lack of a > better word) the DMR will deliver much finer detail than any of the > Japanese DSLRs - pixel for pixel. > > As a result, the DMR is most often compared with the 16 mpixel Canon > 1DS MkII, in terms of resolution. Not bad for a 10.2 mpixel camera > back. :-) > > And, of course, the DMR accepts Leica glass. True, the Canon's will do > that, with an appropriate adapter, but only with stop down metering > and no auto-diaphragm. > > And when you compare the 1 DS MkII, to the Leica R9 with DMR, even > new, the Leica is not a lot more, so I'm not sure cost enters into an > "apples to apples" comparison. > > > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >