Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The print makers themselves with their technique and choice of papers and inks would have 100 times more effect on what you end up seeing than the various lenses involved. The lenses involved when viewed like this becomes almost completely inconsequential. Shoot the stuff yourself Process it yourself with the same sharpening And output it yourself and then look it at it. But its darned hard to do a lens test in the digital age. The camera all have their defaults but in the Raw prefs they can be easily tweaked. We've got a guy saying a Nikon camera is more "colorful" than a Leica with digital back! Its absurd! Mark William Rabiner > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:54:56 +0530 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:HDR, Leica DMR and Nikon D3 > > Doug, > I have your prints made with Leica, I have John Shaw's prints made with > Nikon, and I have Art Morris' prints made with Canon, and I cant tell the > difference at the A3-A4 sizes, I really dont understand how anybody can, > except by pixel peeping. I think you just use what suits you in handling - > the results are pretty much the same. As far as Nikon lenses go (I know > nothing about Canon), I think the following would be very close to or > exceed > Leica R standards, comparing like to like: > > 1. 85mm f1.4 > 2. 180mm f2.8 > 3. Recent lenses in the 70/80-200 zoom range > 4. 200-400 f4 > 5. Most lenses over 300mm if they are stopped down to the Leica R > equivalent > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM, <wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Chris Williams >> >>> ... I know some of my prime Nikon lenses give Leica a run. >> >> No disrespect intended, but every time I've taken remarks like this at >> face >> value (be it Nikon or Canon) I've been disappointed. There may be certain >> aspects of the (N, C) lens that rival the performance of a comparable >> Leica >> lens but the total package isn't there. It might be color quality, >> distortion, flare, bokeh, handling... something has always been missing. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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