Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] Leica ME?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:29:06 -0500
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On Aug 27, 2012, at 5:05 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote:

> George Lottermoser wrote:
> 
>>>> 
> Is "live view" worth giving up the fine detail found on the CCD sensors?
> <<<
> 
> I think it's premature to assume that changing to a CMOS sensor will
> necessarily result in a loss of fine detail.  The CMOS sensors most of us
> are familiar with are bundled with AA filters and a CFA that is optimized
> more for low noise at high ISO than for low-ISO color quality.  If the next
> generation digial M camera(s) uses a CMOS sensor I'd wait for comparisons
> involving production samples instead of assuming.

Oh I'm making absolutely no assumptions.

I have to believe and even remain very hopeful
that Leica intends to continue to exploit the optical possibilities
of their outrageously priced and specced lenses.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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