Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/01
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All I get is this page cannot be found.
Gene
"Richard F. Man"
<richard-lists@imagecraft.co To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
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Sent by: Subject: Re: [Leica] Summar vs. Summicron!
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10/01/2003 11:24 AM
Please respond to
leica-users
At 08:59 AM 10/1/2003 -0400, Simon Pulman-Jones wrote:
>Richard - What was the film, and the aperture? Color balance looks
>remarkably similar (if it hasn't been altered too much en route to the
web),
>with only slightly less saturation visible on the Summar.
>...
The film is Fuji RHP II (I think it's a II, my eyes are getting old :-( ).
Wait, it must be RHP III, or Provia 400F. Darned, my eyes are old :-(
My bad! I did my usual webifying thing. It does make a true comparison
invalid. Here are pretty much the raw scans:
http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/summar-np.jpg
http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/summicron-np.jpg
Only thing done to them was to resize to smaller sizes and convert the
profile to sRGB.
The original posts (w/o the -np suffixes), were done w/ very minor
sharpening, which is otherwise always needed because the scanner softens it
ever so slightly, especially since I use ICE by default. The only other
thing I did was to Adjust Level in Photoshop and moved the high and low
points to the true ends of the histograms. I think this shows the Summicron
is a much higher contrast pic - on the summicron pic, I only needed to
nudge the end points slightly. On the summar pic, the ends of the histogram
were a bit further inward.
Anyway, I think you can tell by these two pics that the Summar is softer
and lower contrast, and does not have quite the snap. OTOH, even on the
teenager's skin, I think the Summar gives a more pleasing smooth tone. Of
course, lets leave the B word out of the discussion :-)
Oh, this particular Summar also seems to be relatively scratch free. There
is a 2-3 mm line around the center, but otherwise I don't see other
scratches or fog / haze etc.
// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
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