Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica!
From: stevebarbour at mac.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 07:32:22 -0700
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The "No-Croppers? will not buy it.

Steve

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 6:56 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> The Q2 will will present an interessting artistic quandry of those who 
> refuse to crop the sacred 3:2 format.
> 
> Will throwing the switch from 28 to 35 or 50 or 75 be a sinful crop, or 
> present a whole new holy rectangle?
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 7:52 AM, Howard Ritter via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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