Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>1 - Pardon my obvious lack of understanding, but what is it that >distinguishes this tourist snap shot from any other tourist snap shot >taken with any 3mgp digital point and shoot? A couple of things: a) I don't see any color fringing around the thin tree branches and there are no visible moire problems. (look at the shot with the wreath. Dark green leaves against a white background) Given the fact that Leica decided not to use a AA filter (or a waek one) infront of the chip this is a good thing. Kodak didn't use one on their SLR and has big problems with that. b) Looks like you can turn of the sharpen for the jpegs. Also a good thing. Not sure if this was a in camera Jpeg conversion, but I don't see any compression artifacts. c) Highlights don't look clipped. I don't see any holes or grey blothces in the specular component. Roll off into the highlights looks good. d) I'm guessing this is 100asa, because I don't really see any noise in the blacks. e) Unless this was post balanced, it appears that white balance works well. Colors are clean, white and black neutral. >2 - Perhaps there's something wrong with my computer or browser, but >when I right-click on the image, in order to get information about it >and save it to my desktop as a tiff, nothing comes up, leading me to >believe that Leica doesn't want this image downloaded and examined >carefully in Photoshop. Am I missing something here? >B.D. You could examine it all you want in Photoshop, but since they are either JPEG or TIFF you really won't learn a whole lot more than looking at it in your browser. If you really wanted to dig into it, it would have to be a RAW file. Feli --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio * feli2@earthlink.net