Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] LFI review of DMR
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Thu Jun 2 08:30:27 2005

Rick Dykstra <rdcb37@dodo.com.au> wrote:

> Have a look the Leicabeimeister site, where they have some DMR images  
> for download.  The high res one of the ferry has colour fringing at  
> high contrast boundaries.  It is a JPEG - not sure if this matters.
> 
> http://www.leicabeimeister.de/
>
> I'm not sure what to think about what I see in that image.  Is this  
> typical of digital sensors at that magnification?  It could be the  
> lens of course - not sure what they used.

It looks like a wide-angle lens, and IIRC the color fringing is an artifact 
of pixel well depth and angle of incidence (more a problem with WA lenses 
than long lenses).  Long live film.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com