[Leica] D700

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> For me, anything past about 12 mp is wasted anyway.  If I need to make
> gigantic prints there is always Photoshop or plugins that extrapolate
> extra pixels.  resolution has never mattered to me much, except in
> rendering texture.  The D700 suits me fine.  The thing I like best
> about Leica Ms is that the bodies are small, compact and simple and
> the view is direct.  None of these SLRs are any of those things, but
> the D700 is the smallest and simplest.  The D3 cameras make me feel
> like I'm working as a photographer again, with the sore shoulders and
> back to match.
>
> Marty

I'm not sure where I lie in the mp debate. The exposure range of the CFV39
and the M9 seem greater than I've previously used allowing for more range
in the depth of the image.

With the rangefinder, I'd argue that I wanted 14 mp to allow me to crop
images. I found the 10 on the M8 sometimes was a bit "pushed" and I really
wanted to fill the frame better. You get away with 10 on an SLR with
zooms, but I wanted 14 on the M9 and I got 18, which for me was a bonus.
Now I can crop to half frame and still have a decent 9 mp to enlarge, and
the lens copes with that "interrogation".

Cheers

Alastair