Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:55 AM 05/06/98 EDT, you wrote: ><< I don't have a web site where I can display any photos online. If someone > would allow me to post a photo on their site for a few weeks, I could send > them a print to scan in which shows what the 50 summiluxM can do wide open. >>> >The differences in quality are small enough that there is no way a computer >monitor could adequately reveal the level of quality involved. I have no >doubt that photos taken with the 50 1.4 would look excellent on the web. The >improvement in the new 50 1.4 would not be revealed by this type of >comparison. > >How many lines of resolution can a computer monitor show, even under the best >of circumstances? I think the point that was being made earlier was that wide open the 50 summiluxM produces unacceptable images. I don't want to show a comparison of this-and-that version of the lens, just to show that the most recent version can produce nice results wide open. There was some previous discussion that, since the new 50 summilux R is coming out, Leica should update the M version because it is soft wide open, or some such thing. I have had a few takers on my offer to put a print up on the WWW. So what if the resolution isn't the same as looking at a print. I just hope to show that wide open, the lens can do some nice things. I'll be sending a print from Canada overseas, so it may be a few weeks before it gets up. Stay tuned... - -GH