Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, It's pretty amazing. I've been using a Sinarback 44 for about a year and can attest to it. Just pulled up a raw 382 mb image with their captureshop program and it does look like more than 11 stops, however, I have been using the camera with static subjects in 16-exposure mode for the maximum resolution and color depth. As you have probably seen with Sinar's other equipment, their literature is pretty straightforward - what it says is what the equipment does. It doesn't say that multiple shots are a requirement for 11 stops, I think that would take it well over 11. The Sinar rep stopped by a few weeks ago and helped with some problems, solved with software, and quietly pitched their newest, the Sinarback 54 which has upgraded anti-blooming and improved dyes on the sensor. Sinar paid Kodak for the R&D and got exclusive rights on the chip for a year. Sinar's Captureshop software is really well thought through. It looks like the firewire backs, 43 and 54, can be used with a hand-held camera, Sinar M, which will accept Leica lenses. One does need a calibrated monitor, plenty of RAM, a lot of disk space, and a good data backup strategy to deal with these things. Multiplying by 382mb gives some interesting requirements. John animal wrote: > Now that prices are falling i,m getting an upgraded Sinar. > In one of their latest brochures they were comparing cooled sensors versus > film.They stated that the latest of their backs has a contrast range of 11 > stops.Is that true? > simon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:51 PM > Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodak stock is down(way down!) this morning. > > > >>Good God, Steve, is there something you haven't told us about your >>health? :-) >> >>I'd be interested in knowing how many professionals - facts please, as >>Austin might ask - have made a real switch from film to digital, as >>opposed to buying a p&s and not liking it - and have then switched back >>to film. And then I wonder what proportion of what fraction of one >>percent they are of all those who have switched to digital. >> >>I am not saying, Steve, that you or anyone else who doesn't want to >>should make the switch- I'm still primarily shooting film myself. But I >>think it's quite unrealistic to refer to digital as "all the talk," as >>though digital was the photographic equivalent of the 8-track fad. Still >>photography is going digital, and it is going digital with astounding >>speed. Sure, there will undoubtedly be film around as long as you or I >>are alive - but it will be a curiosity, not the photographic standard. >>And I'd be willing to bet that it will not be the photographic standard >>five short years from now. >> >>B. D. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve >>LeHuray >>Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:06 PM >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak stock is down(way down!) this morning. >> >> >> >>>I don't know if film is "outta here," but I find it both fascinating >>>and telling that Kodak is advertising a disposable film camera on t.v. >> >>>in a commercial telling people that they can use it to get "digital >>>pictures." And ads for the camera stress that it produces high quality >> >>>digital images. >>> >>>B. D. >>> >> >>...I seriously doubt that film is "outta here." Kodak has always had a >>history of joining in with new technologies. Certainly they are deeply >>committed to film as it is their core business but they are smart to >>explore digital. I remember 20+ years ago all the howls from the motion >>picture film folks as Kodak started to sell VHS video tape (they only >>sold somebody else's tape under the Kodak logo). While digital is all >>the talk it is interesting to see (on the various lists I subscribe to) >>the number of people who have switched over to digital, and then see >>many of them announce they are moving back to film. Someday it will be a >>completely digital world, but not in my lifetime. >> >>sl >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html