[Leica] New Leica!

Tue Apr 2 11:11:50 PDT 2019

I was going to start making a lot of long skinny panoramic prints way back in the 1980's and use the cameras I had which were normal 35mm cameras. I was just going to crop the negs skinny.
I think a lot of people thought they are going to do that. But neither I or a lot of other people did that; cropped our 2 over 3 negs to 617 or some other skinny pan format. Why? I think it’s a human nature thing. Once we've shot it fat it kind of goes against the grain to then make it skinny. So we don’t.
That’s why a digital crop works out to be a thing people use. Even though it seems wasteful it makes for a viable option.
Because extreme cropping later turns out to be a thing people just don’t want to do.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 4/2/19, 7:52 AM, "LUG on behalf of Howard Ritter via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 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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