Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >The point I may be making dully is photography is about photographs. >And you look at a print and its either properly sharp or its not. >Plus all the other qualities which make or break a successful image. >A successful photograph. >Slides and uploads are ephemeral. Smoke and mirrors. Look away... They're >gone. >And people trade 10's of thousands of dollars of gear back and forth to >achieve such a to me such dubious non results. >The proof is in the pudding and to me what I'm looking at on my monitor >ain't it. It's Cool Whip. >Pudding is an image on paper. Mark, IIRC this discussion developed from your complaint that the M8's sensor was too small and that the image quality from any "full-frame" sensor would be better. Several of us 'crop factor' Leica users have pointed out that there are other factors involved, one of which is the AA filter. I do wish you and Jayanand would TRY the M8 and COMPARE the file quality, as many LUGgers have, and see for yourself how much of a problem the crop factor is, or conversely, see for yourself how much of a problem the AA filter is. BTW I've seen very obvious color moire in photos from an un-modified Nikon D200 so it's not like the AA filter solves the problem. Doug Herr http://www.wildlightphoto.com walk softly and carry a big lens