Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is a somewhat frustrating first look review from them for me. I used to follow their reviews on many brands where they provided good features description, handling and impressions even in first looks, I think. Perhaps they will add more later. Their comment on the default DNG profile (and default JPEG rendering) reflects that it was not yet optimised when they tested. Adobe will doubtless address that (as they have just done in the newest raw processing for S (Typ 007) DNG's). Re the banding comments, when I read this is a problem at base ISO if you push the file by five or six EV, I feel like this has got into the realm of theoretical analysis absent practical use of the camera. How many of us would expect no loss of quality in that circumstance? It doesn't matter about the equipment brand, surely this is hardly relevant in practical use? Personally I have sometimes been surprised at just how much information is in the shadows from the M (Typ 240) and S2 for example. But if I needed to fix an underexposure by that much it would need to be a Pulitzer Prize candidate image for me to admit that I got the exposure that wrong in the first place. I don't think that direct camera to camera performance comparisons are necessarily sensible either when they are not even being compared with the same optics for example. The 'real world samples' they provide were evidently with a Summilux 35 (unknown model). Must be an M lens with adapter I guess. Maybe if the review is updated to talk about the actual camera features and their experience in using it with the first to be released lens It might be more interesting/relevant for me in any case. No-one even has a serial camera yet as far as I know yet there is no shortage of criticism it seems. Maybe the 'it's too big, Leica should.....' theme is lessening at least ;-) DPreview bear some responsibility for influencing that with a misleading image too, as I recall. --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Cc: Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:39:35 -0700 Subject: Re: [Leica] BIG new Leica See http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9955093579/leica-sl-typ601-in-depth-camera-review/3 "[The Leica SL's] shadow performance can be significantly undermined by the hard-to-correct-for banding." Paul www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/> Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman