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

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica!
From: zoeica at mac.com (chris williams)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:06:09 -0400
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In all seriousness , no one gives a crap. 

Chris Williams
www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com
www.zoeicaimages.net
504-231-6261



> On Apr 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> What I found was the DX format is two lenses away from full frame. So your 
> 50mm lens goes to 28mm passing the 35mm lens in effect.
> But a 1.2 crop is one lens away for the most part. And I have that on my 
> D750 as an option which gives you framelines to look around like a Leica. 
> One lens longer. Way less pixels down the drain. And crop lines.
> Way back I found the idea of throwing away pixels like that not for me but 
> when I tried it out on a D750, I found it very useful and fun and fooled 
> me into thinking I was shooting with a Leica M.
> You also can crop 1.5 which is of course DX and very familiar; but the 1.2 
> and that gives you a frame line like you're looking though a rangefinder 
> and tightens things up just a nice bit. I use it a lot with that camera. 
> The amount of pixels I'm still getting is still more than I used to get 
> with my D700 which felt more than fine at the time. And the prints I can 
> make are still in line with the biggest on my 17" Wide Format Printing 
> Epson P800. I print at 240dpi not 300.
> So I'm not really shooting myself in the foot big time using other crop 
> options on my fairly high rez full frame DSLR.
> I love seeing around the framelines thinking around the box.
> 
> Now though I'm doing the rash thing by shooting with a Nikon D500 which is 
> a fast DX camera with no anti alias filter which encourages you to use 
> insanely high ISO's as if it's nothing. Noise is the brush stoke of 
> digital photography Man Ray could have said.
> It does have this feature which gives you a crop frame line option.
> Its result is my nemesis 2x crop as in the 4/3's format. I certainly 
> balked at that but do it from time to time when things are far far away 
> and I have not self-respect. I'd be cropping each like like a son of a gun 
> and no one's looking. Great fun.
> Some day if I'm hanging a show of  bigger than 17 inch prints I may regret 
> it. And wish I had some integrity.
> I think though we greatly over estimate are rez requirements when we print.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 
> ?On 4/1/19, 10:36 AM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG" 
> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
>    But it's really a 28/1.7, right?  That crops for the other views?
> 
>    The added resolution also enables unique digital zoom capabilities to
>    simulate working with different focal length lenses: 30MP images can be
>    created using a 35mm field of view, 15MP images with a 50mm field of 
> view,
>    and 7MP with a 75mm field of view.
> 
>    Tina
> 
>    On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:20 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>> I will need to find my way to a Leica store.  That would fit the bill for
>> 70% of what I shoot.
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 9:13 AM chris williams via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Awesome! They made a 21-35-50 Q!!!!
>>> 
>>> Can?t wait to get my hands on one
>>> 
>>> Chris Williams
>>> www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com
>>> www.zoeicaimages.net
>>> 504-231-6261
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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