Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Andrew: Your point is well taken, but you didn't seem to read my whole message. My point was that the TONALITY is fabulous on the CCD, but it's still a small image. MY point was if we could only get that CCD behind a piece of Leica glass. Also, for the record, the macro capabilities of the 950 are more than surprising. I'm going to upload an image to http://members.aol.com/tharrry/trillium.html take a look at it and get back to me about the macro thing. Remember, this photograph is reduced from the original TIF and JPEGed down to level 5. As I said, if your target is a monitor, you can't get much better than this. Tom At 7:03 AM +1000 5/19/99, Andrew Nemeth wrote: >Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net> wrote: > >>[ Nikon Coolpix 950 ] >>At up to a 6x8 print you'd have trouble telling it from the best of 35mm >>cameras. As a scan in the computer it rivals ANY image from a Leica scanned >>with the very best scanner. > >No offense to Thomas, but I think he got a little carried away. > >1. Betcha can't shoot a 180-degree diagonal fisheye image with it > to match the 16mm R fisheye-elmarit. Now for extra points, shoot > super-wide into the sun without flaring... > >2. How about macro - can it beat the 100mm R Apo? > >;^) > >For super-wide or close-up work, the 950 doesn't come close. > >So who cares about super-wide? All the VR photographers! Also, >as an aside, there are problems at the moment with downloading >images from the 950 onto a mac (you currently have to go via >a PC-CARD reader). Don't have no such problems scanning in 35mm! > >Digital cameras *are* getting better. But IMO they are still >a long way off for real world commercial work. > >Cheers, > >Andrew N. >www.nemeng.com Thomas Kachadurian WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria