[Leica] IMGS: Tests with MM and M246

[Mark Rabiner]

Seems to me the speed increase you got with a M246  is many while the speed
increase you get with the Noct is one.  One with a lot  lit of bulk and
weight. So if it was me I'd just bring the  50mm Summilux. Its a 3.5 grand
chuck of free floating glass you'd not be slumming.  And half of what you've
been talking about on this thing is cutting back on traveling bulk. If it
was closer to home for sure the Noct at its f1 performance is part of your
signature look.  I took a lot at what everyone's saying about the f1.4
performance of the current 50 Summilux and its filled with the highest of
superlatives. Nobody seems to be able to come up with anything remotely
negative so say. Just calling it "great" would seem to be an insult.

My cruising iso for a few years now has been iso 6400 two stops over 1600
and it made me for sure not miss my Noctilux.
I do leave home without it.
At one point it was superglued to my camera which was attached to my right
hand for a year. After a year I occasionally used other glass. Boy was that
other glass light! And small! And you didn't have to guess what was in the
corner of the picture.!

On 2/12/16 10:56 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to decide which one to take to Iran.  The only way for me to do
> that is to use them and compare the photos and the handling of the camera.
> I had heard that the files were better from the MM but the handling is
> better with the M246.  That's what I'm "testing".  So far, the higher ISO
> performance of the M246 is making me lean toward it.  It's very dark in the
> souks.  Should I take the heavy Noctilux or just the Summilux?  That is the
> kind of thing I am testing.
> 
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
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