Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mmmh! Cost's as much as a 2007 Hummer H3. s.d. On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: > At 4:17 PM -0800 1/28/07, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >> 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. > > > Possibly the M8 was never intended to replace an EOS IDII with > 600/4 IS, or a view camera with a Betterlight back.... > > It won't even challenge a Seitz 6x17: > > http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/ > f934.cfm > > (note that it's half a meter wide). > > Although personally, if I could get a 6x17 like this for the price > of an M8, I'd not mind if I had to find IR hot filters to make it > work. > > >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information