[Leica] Leica superiority or not.

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

But we are not all photographing just for the web.  Try and get your
digital photos accepted by a stock agency.  Or printed as a large print.
Resolution matters.

Tina


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:31 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:

>  Enough of this praise of Leica superiority. It is tiresome even on the
> LUG. For most practical purposes Leicas are not superior to other cameras.
>
>
> The limit to image quality, especially for images presented on the
> internet, is set by the viewing device. In the case of an HD TV, a 35 mm
> full frame image need only have 45 lines/mm to appear perfectly sharp. Even
> if the image is viewed on the top quality 27" Mac monitor it need only have
> 60 l/mm to appear sharp. These image resolution standards are only slightly
> greater than those that the old Modern Photography magazine rated as
> minimally acceptable. Every camera I own, no matter how cheap or how old
> can meet the resolution standard required by modern image viewing systems.
> Every Leica lens ever made, except possibly the old Thambar portrait lens,
> will exceed the minimum resolution criteria. By actual test my widely
> disparaged 75 year old Elmar 35 mm f3.5, Leica's first wide angle, resolved
> 68 l/mm.?
>
>
> Some zealots on the LUG seem to obsess over the latest and greatest Leica
> lenses and the imaging characteristics and the size of electronic sensors.
> While these may be interesting topics in themselves, they have almost
> nothing to do with the pictures posted on the LUG and viewed on a computer
> screen. The best is the enemy of "good enough." Get out there and take
> meaningful pictures. Don't blather endlessly about technical perfection.
>
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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