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Subject: [Leica] Film vs. Digital, a meaningless comparison
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:23:40 -0500
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Hi Richard,

The digital image appears to me to have more contrast, which gives an 
impression of more sharpness.  I think they could be matched with small 
adjustments, aside from the differences in DOF.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:22 AM
Subject: [Leica] Film vs. Digital, a meaningless comparison


> Not really a comparison, but since I took the same scene with a digital
> back (P25+) and TX-400, may as well show them. I did my usual processing 
> to
> get them the way I like them.
>
> Oddly enough, at pixel peeping level, clearly I shook the camera with the
> digital one :-( Just a coincidence, I imagine.
>
> Digital definitely wins in smoothness, especially in the sky. I thought I
> used the same exposure, but the film one definitely looks more exposed (I
> use the 2 bath Pyrocat and rated TX-400 at 400). A quick edit in Lightroom
> equalizes things some. I cropped the 6x6 film image down to more or less
> matching, so throwing some resolution away there.
>
> Digital:
> www.richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20121013-CF045781.jpg
>
> Film:
> http://www.richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20121016-Scanned-4-Edit.jpg
>
>
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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