[Leica] Q2

[Frank Filippone]

DO you realize you have 47MP at 28mm.  If you have the "lens" set to 75mm, you have a significantly lower resolution..... ?

Quick calcs tell me at (28x2) 56 mm, you have 12MP.

Now maybe they are doing some interpolation or other computer wizardry, but it is a fixed 28mm lens and a fixed 47mp sensor.

NO magic can change this optical reality.

You do NOT have 47mp at 75mm...... not directly in the optical sense.....

Computational Photography is the new .... Specmanship trickster.....


Frank Filippone
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On 6/12/2021 4:48 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG wrote:
> I just recently tried out Gigapixel as well as the new PS Enhance feature. I’ve only compared one image file so far, one with a fir tree in the center and lots of needles to test the resolution.
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> GP is the clear winner over PS.
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> As far as cropping and enlarging to mimic a longer lens goes, the Q2 image up-res’ed and cropped, both by a factor of 2, to mimic a 47 Mpx 56mm image, is strikingly superior to a primary 50mm 42 MPx image. I have not yet up-res’ed the Sony image, but I expect it to be correspondingly better, but that would be wasted storage space except for the exceptional image that’s going to be made into a 4’ x 6’ poster – the take-home point is that if a 47 Mpx file has all the resolution I’ll ever need and ~50mm all the longer a lens, then the Q2 hits the sweet spot for me. Actually, since 15-20 Mpx might do it (15 looks fabulous at 13 x 21 inches on my 250-dpi iMac), then the Q2 gives me the equivalent of ~ 90mm.
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>> On Jun 12, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> I have used Gigapixel since it came out and it works as advertised, though it needs a stout graphics card, at least 4gb vram, 8 is better.  Since Photoshop and Lightroom now come with a similar app,2x Super Resolution, you might get the trial version of Gigapixel and compare.  They look the same to me.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Jun 12, 2021, at 10:57 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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