Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, I get your point - I was just comparing two cameras within the same format, but with a few years of development between them. The D2x and D5000 are both DX format, but output is like chalk and cheese. D5000 wins hands down. D3x is in a whole other league, of course. On May 28, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > If I typed somewhere D2x I meant D3x nobody cares about the D2x > your right > its history. Its cropped format. Not all that relevant. Old > technology too. > But I'm sure they still take pictures the images they've made are > not going > to spontaneously disappear from the common culture. > The D3x is full frame. > Very much more than a step up from the D2x. More than two steps up. > > I may have been typing D2x on all kinds of stuff making it non > sensible. > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:08:28 +0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] VictorBlad >> >> I agree, but if you were using 100 year old formula on the plates, >> it'd be blown away by the same camera with sheet provia. You can't >> update the sensor on the V blad in the same way you can change the >> film on the Deardorf. >> >> All things equal - if we used identical building blocks to make up >> the sensor area - yes, the bigger sensor would always win. That was >> the case with film, because more of the same stuff is always better. >> But this isn't the case, because here the building blocks aren't >> identical. The technology used in the V back is quite a way behind >> that on the D3x sensor. It's the same reason that the D5000 >> outperforms the D2x on basis of image quality alone; they may have >> the same pixel count, but there's been another five years of sensor >> development between them. I don't think anybody is going to say the >> D2x is great above ISO 800, whereas the D5000 can be shot all the way >> to the 6400 limit. And there it's only about a stop and a half behind >> the D3. (Heracy!) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein