Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me, digital zoom is a bit like an automatic transmission (or a point-and-shoot function in a camera). It accomplishes one thing, a center crop of fixed size, effortlessly. If you can work a clutch and shift stick in your favorite image-processing program, you can have a crop centered anywhere, of any size, of any dimensions. And you get to work in raw/png/dng/tiff rather than jpeg. I frankly, no pun intended, don?t see the allure. Except maybe that the VF crops the view as well as the sensor. ?howard > On Apr1, 2019, at 1432, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > The new Leica Q2 has the following specs.... > 24x36 full frame sensor > Sensor has resolution of 47.3MP > Summilux 28 mm f/1.7 ASPH fixed, non-zoom, and non-interchangeable lens > OLED viewfinder has a resolution of 3.68 megapixels ( no optical RF or VF) > > Internal cropping ( now referred to as "digital zoom") of this lens allows > for the following fixed equivalent Fl and resolutions..... BUT for JPG > files ONLY!! > Zoom 28 mm: 47 megapixels (8368x5584 pixels), 24 megapixels (6000x4000 > pixels), 12 megapixels (4271x2848 pixels). 3 different resolutions, I > guess dependent on JPG compression ratios..... > Zoom 35 mm: 30 megapixels (6704x4472 pixels), 15 megapixels (4800x3200 > pixels), 8 megapixels (3424x2288 pixels) > Zoom 50 mm: 15 megapixels (4688x3128 pixels), 8 megapixels (3360x2240 > pixels), 4 megapixels (2400x1600 pixels) > Zoom 75 mm: 7 megapixels (3136x2096 pixels), 3 megapixels (2240x1496 > pixels), 2 megapixels (1600x1072 pixels) > > DNG: RAW files of 47.3MP No Zoom at all. Crop in your choice of LR, or > other..... > > As long as you are happy to shoot JPG files, this is a fine set of specs. > If you wish to shoot RAW images, not as much.... but you o get to crop in > your own HxW ratios and specific areas to crop. > > If they would simply put a M mount on the camera, forget the AF, and focus > the camera on the Digi-M functions, it would be a fine camera for me. > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information