Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the mega-pixel wars?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:01:17 -0700
References: <506FA546-28CA-45F3-AD85-D2E9F47A781E@mac.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E913334145@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <CA+yJO1At4iUBL+vjXaSbd1P0xuubJsboTbWma7kSSXk-kQjkow@mail.gmail.com> <CAF8hL-GkCqThdFneF3ncnWhMCxNAi-tD3BU3PsVgtEaUwpMnaQ@mail.gmail.com> <40BBBB21-52C0-47CE-BA2B-8021493A6A2D@mac.com> <1318974263.71324.YahooMailNeo@web39301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CA+yJO1D65Wdm--qbyYij48etLvsmv5OUeH8TCw9MtYFx5a0cYg@mail.gmail.com>
 
BTW Tina, I am not doubting your experience, but do you know that some
people put the wide, especially the 24 TS-E on MEDIUM format back? Even with
shift?

http://www.hartblei.de/en/hartbleicam2.htm

I want one of those, then I could kick sand at Bob :-)


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> That's my issue with Canon lenses.  Awful purple fringing on every wide
> angle shot.  Not to mention problems with auto-focus that make manual focus
> much faster and loss of detail because of the AA filter.  Nobody on the
> stock lists believes me when I talk about how much better Leica lenses are.
>  Nobody cares.  Canon is good enough, I guess.  Not for me.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Williams <zoeica at mac.com>
> >
> > > Yes true but this thing is made for AF and brags about it when Canon
> has
> > had many known
> > > AF issues lately.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yup.  Gonna wait for the Canon 1D-Xn with All New Focusing AutoFocus
> > Action.  And then buy Zeiss glass.  For newspaper the fact that every
> > highlight is fringed purple isn't a huge issue.  For the web, nobody
> > notices.  For real work... umm... guys?
> >
> >
> > R. Clayton McKee
> > PhotoJournalist
> > from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> >
> >
> > >________________________________
> > >
> > >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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>



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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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