Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the advice, I'm sure it's true for YOU. I do have a lowly junker M8u, the one with the cripple crop sensor :-) Anyway, I wouldn't trade it to do what I do at Salton Sea and Joshua Tree, even though I did bring it with me and took some photos with it too :-) On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Aha, an opportunity for 2 OT posts at once. The last time I used my Mamiya > 7 was on my Icelandic holiday the summer of 2005. It had been my > hiking/landscape camera of choice for a long time. I took it and, my then > fairly new, Canon EOS 1Ds mk2. I took a few pictures which were from the > same viewpoint on the same tripod with both cameras, just for interest's > sake. I had to scan the film when I got home, of course, but the scanned > images from the Mamiya 7, mainly using the 43mm lens, were only a bit > technically superior to the Canon shots using the less than stellar > 16-35mm zoom. I was astonished. The M9, or Nikon D3x with the 14-24 zoom > is much better than the Canon for landscapes. The Mamiya was still a good > choice for hiking, if you haven't got a M8 or M9. > For the slow B&W film Richard, I am sure it is still superior, as long as > you have a rigid tripod. > Frank > > On 27 Jan, 2010, at 04:08, Richard Man wrote: > >> You infidel :-) >> >> Let the firework begins!!! :-) >> >> Actually, the reason I use the Mamiya 7II for my B&W work is >> because... well, 6x7 neg is about 4 times the size of a 35mm frame, >> digital or not :-) >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:38 PM, slobodan Dimitrov >> <s.dimitrov at charter.net> wrote: >>> To tell you a plain truth, from my vantage point, my 1D MIII with a 50 >>> f1.8, walks circles around most of the shots I've seen posted with the >>> M8 or M9. >>> S.d. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com >> // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: >> http://rfman.wordpress.com >> // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963