Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice! But a virtually irrelevant test. In the usual shooting situation, the average working distance is usually within 15 feet. Those that need to reach out for a closer shot, such as the sports photographers, usually use ED, etc, optics with vibration reduction. Now for critical digital landscapes, as it was practiced very early on by large format photographers, one used the camera as a scanner attached to a laptop. 200 to 400 megabyte files for one shot, with multiple (layers) exposures, tended to be the norm. The files are larger now. s.d. On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote: > I usually have the same opinion on Leica snobbery than B.D. but I > cannot agree this time about the low capacities of thew Leica M8. > It's true that battery is not a champion of endurance because my > EOS 1Ds may easily triplicate the life of the M8 battery. It's true > also that the Kodak sensor cannot obtain every possibility of the > marvelous Leica M lenses but this would have been a miracle for the > first true digital camera attempt from Solms. Wait for new > firmwares as usual in digital cameras. I've found the M8 as a very, > very good digital camera as good as my EOS 1Ds as you can see in > this folder not very scientific and some approximative but > corresponding to my real way of photographing . > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=689069 > > And the more important criticism is about color and I have found > that the Jamie Roberts color profiles for Capture One solves most > of this true problem > > Look at a horrible but significant picture processed with camera > row where the magenta rules specially in some books of the bookshelf > > http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518842-md.jpg > > > and look now at the same "horrible picture" processed with capture > one with the mentioned color profile of Jamie Roberts > > > http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518826-md.jpg > > The magenta issue is very minor one. > > I hope this helps. > > Felix > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information