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: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:23:01 -0400
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YES !  I have the Canon prime L lenses and they all show fringing and loss
of detail and awful bokeh.  I spend hours trying to correct the photos that
I took with the Canon 5D and 1DMII before Leica came out with the M9.  I
hate it when I have a request for a photo taken with the Canon. The Leica M9
and R9 with DMR are ready to go, straight from the camera.  My daughter is
using my Canon cameras and lenses to shoot weddings and events.  They are
fine for that. Nobody can tell the difference.  I can and I'm sure you can,
too.

Tina

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:11 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at 
yahoo.com>wrote:

> I ABSOLUTELY agree with you.... except that for what I'm doing on a day to
> day "need to pay the rent" basis they ARE good enough.  For personal
> stuff... well.  I still have my RB and my M's... and now the PanaLeica.
>
> Out of curiosity - did you have the same fringing problems with the EOS
> primes?
>
>
>
> R. Clayton McKee
> PhotoJournalist
> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
>
>
> >________________________________
> >From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:58 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 1D X -- the real marker to the end of the
> mega-pixel wars?
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
>
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>


-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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