[Leica] IMGS: Tests with MM and M246

[Aram Langhans]

John.  Correct.  As part of her photographic system, not as a critical 
review comparing just the cameras.  How do they work when attached to a 
particular photographer, mainly Tina.  A real life test for her way of 
working.  If you are not going to use your camera on a tripod, why test how 
it works on a tripod?  How does it work in your hand shooting things you 
shoot in the way you shoot them.  I personally love tripod tests because 
that is the way I work.  That is how I would test them, removing my handling 
ability from the comparison.  I know I am shaky, and if you add shutter 
vibration and slow shutter speeds to that, I know I will have a high miss 
rate w/o a tripod.  Not Tina's style, so this kind of test is meaningless to 
her.  It might have great meaning to  you or I.  I fail to see why she is 
being criticized for testing in a purely functional way that has great 
meaning to her.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: John McMaster
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 7:26 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Tests with MM and M246

Tina posted them as comparisons of the original Monochrom to the new CMOS 
M(246)....

john

-----Original Message-----

Right.  She is not testing the camera or lens.  She is testing the 
photographic system, which includes the photographer and the environment in 
which the system is working.  Real life tests will tell you how the system 
will perform in the world in which you are working.  A test of the system 
has to include all variables as variables.  The test of one item has to 
control all variables.  Apples oranges.  Who cares what the camera alone can 
do if you will never be using it under those controlled conditions?

Keep testing and learning how the system works.  I look forward to the 
amazing photos it will produce in your hands.

Aram