Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:08:41 -0800
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On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Jon,
>> You can make out with JPGs? You have much better eyesight than I have!
>> 
> 
> Richard Man wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Jon, fairy dust sprinkled by the Leica wizards!!!
>> 
> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:40 PM, jon.streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> When I see Leica photos posted here, they seem to have a sharpness and,
>>> sometimes, luminescence, beautiful bokeh, microcontrast perhaps, that 
>>> sets
>>> them apart from other cameras with sensors rated higher by DXO.  But it's
>>> hardly a meaningful test since I've been a Leica fan since high school, 
>>> so
>>> I'm biased.  Furthermore, I know which photographs were done with Leica
>>> glass.  Still, they do seem better, and I'm curious about how that's
>>> possible if Leica sensors are so low in DXO's ratings.  Software?  
>>> Lenses?
>>> Superb photographers?
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Several years ago when I used (briefly) a Canon L lens several people 
> e-mailed after seeing the photos on my website and asked "What happened?  
> You've lost some color and detail."



or, as they say in words that seem appropriate, " a swallow does not a 
summer make".



Steve






>  There was nothing on the web pages indicating the equipment I had used.  
> Apparently such differences can be seen in web-sized jpgs.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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