Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I began looking at the pictures before I had read any text and I thought some of the shots had been taken with a mirror lens because of how the out of focus areas are rendered. Sam S Leonard J Kapner wrote: >Friends, > >I am fortunate to have both the Leica D2 and the Canon G5. Just for fun, I >took them both with me this morning to make some family snaps at a >restaurant breakfast. Both set for aperture priority, no flash assist and >fine JPEG. > >Net? Resolution results on card are almost identical. On auto indoors with >fluorescent and some mixed daylight from the east, color balance with the D2 >is "cooler" than the G5, sort of like it used to be between Ektachrome and >Kodachrome 25 years ago. > >DOF with the D2 at max extension seems shallower than with the G5, perhaps >the result of a larger sensor size? > >The D2 is very camera-like in its operation, although I'm still getting used >to the EVF. Its form factor is larger than the G5, but grips nicely due to >the textured skin and feels substantial. The D2's EVF is preferable to the >optical viewfinder on the G5. > >Menu visibility in the D2's EVF is excellent. The D2's basic controls are >just like the film-based rangefinder camera, the G5's are a combination of >radio buttons as well as two and four-way rocker switches, and there are a >lot of them - generally a "fussy", non-intuitive human interface design. > >The G5 has very good battery life, the D2 less so, but both were adequate to >burn through a 256mb card of fine JPEGs without going flat. > >If I could have only one, price no object, I would choose the D2. But >factoring in the current street price, the G5 is about 3 x less expensive >than the D2, so I would have to choose the G5. > >Both cameras make excellent snapshots, if that's what you're looking for. >The D2 approaches being a serious work tool; only time will tell if I begin >to use it in place of M or R systems cameras for other than amusement and >family documentation. > >Regarding the other camera mentioned, I have no experience with the C5060, >other than its designator is the same as the last four digits of my 'phone >number. :-) > >Hope this is of help. > >Len >Leonard J Kapner >E-Mail: ljkapner at cox dot net >Tel: (310) 377-5060 / Mobile: (310) 291-0140 > >-- > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bob Adler >Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:58 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternative to Digi2: G5 or C5060? > >Stan, >I have the G5. It does RAW and TIFF. Photoshop CS >supports the RAW and is great. The 2.0 lens is also >useful for low light. The output is very acceptable to >me. Shutter lag is not a problem; you just have to >focus first. It has two custom setting, one of which I >have set for infinite focus manually, so there's no >waiting. I think I saw on a post earlier this week >that Ted Grant has one and uses it successfully to >capture his grandchild's basketball endeavors. If I'm >wrong, forgive me Ted. > >I'm very please with the camera's electronics, optics, >and output for what I use it for. > >I do prefer the solid feel and wonderful sound of my >M's however :-) >Bob >--- Stan Yoder <vze2myh5@verizon.net> wrote: > > >>OK, the Canon G5 and Olympus 5060 have been >>mentioned here recently as having merit. Any >>consensus >>about which is better, if at all? The G5 has a >>1-stop faster lens, which might make it easier to >>put >>backgrounds out of focus, repeat 'might.' Anything >>the 5060 has that the G5 doesn't? >> >> From what I can read, the G5 only outputs in JPEG, >>whereas the 5060 apparently will do TIFF and RAW >>as well, eliminating compression artifacts. But when >>I handled a G5 at a store I thought, repeat >>'thought' I was able to get a TIFF choice in the >>menu. Anyone confirm that? >> >>Stan Yoder >>Pittsburgh >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see >> >> >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > >===== >Bob Adler >Palo Alto, CA >rgacpa@pacbell.net >-- >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