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Subject: [Leica] Quick/dirty test
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:59:04 +0530
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Alastair,
I never look at these tests, but I was really moved to do so by curiosity,
because of the impassioned defense the DMR invariably gets here. High ISO
comparision is as I would have expected. To my surprise, it seems that the
D3s has much more detail in the low ISO shots (100&200) as well, and
whatever lens you used on it (I presume 70-200) seemed to control flare
better than its Leica counterpart as well. Look at the specular highlights
above 990. How come?

BTW, with the Nikon D700, I start with EV -0.7, but then use the histogram
to fine tune exposure.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:

> If you have no interest in 'testing', delete now. This is a quick
> comparison of the DMR v D3s. First test is ISO performance. Ok I know not
> fair etc.
>
> First thing I will say, is that outside in daylight the differences were
> quite small. This series was done inside in dim artificial lighting. The
> images are labeled 100 to 800 then 400a and 800a. The last 2 were done
> using Doug's 'shoot at 200 ISO and decrease exposure technique.
> The series starts here and you can run forward: look at the image large to
> get some idea of what was found
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3dem7on
>
> Alastair
>
>
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