[Leica] Similar images, M3 and M8

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Henning,
What's your point? We have the images and that's all that counts. I matched
the pictures as closely as I could and examined them side by side. On my
monitor there was hardly any difference and I said just that. I don't care
if one was taken through the bottom of a Coke bottle and the other through a
Summicron. They looked pretty much alike. Remember, It is the image, not the
equipment, that matters. My miniscule preference for the film image was
personal and subjective and not based on pixel count, camera, or lens type.
What the hell, it might have been due to the glint in the boy's eye.
Larry Z

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Henning writes:

I really think you (and I) don't have enough information available to

us from and in these images to come to those sort of conclusions.

Scanning and processing as well as the different lenses etc make that

sort of comparison illusory.




At 5:02 PM -0400 4/17/10, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

Peter,


The M3 and M8 images were difficult to compare directly. The pixel counts of

the large images were different enough so that the M8 image was about 20%

bigger when viewed on the monitor. I downloaded both and resized them so

that each image was the same size, them viewed them side by side on a 20"

monitor. After all that work, all I could conclude is that there was not

much difference between the two. But if asked to make a choice I would say

that the M3 film image had a bit more snap, or "life" as one Lugger said.

Apparently the digital M8 has almost caught up to the quality of film. Had

you photographed the young lad with a M9 it might have been a wash.