Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like you landed in the boring part of the thread, where they were shooting colour cards. Try some of the other 60 or so pages for interesting pics. I just downloaded one of the 28 MB tifs made by the DMR available on the Leica site. One is titled 'frau' another 'Eule', which means owl. http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/digitalmodul/downloads/ index_e.html I'm zooming in on the frau's ring. Rick. On 31/08/2005, at 6:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > On 8/30/05 7:50 PM, "Rick Dykstra" <rdcb37@dodo.com.au> typed: > > >> Mark (et al), go look at the link I posted a little while back. >> Here. >> >> >>> http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/267995/21 >>> >> >> The DMR is being highly praised on this Canon list. >> >> Rick. >> >> > Nice someone is raising some stink on the Canon list I say them > them rot in > their own private little Hells! :) > > What I'm supposed to be looking at and what I am looking at on > theses things > took me awhile to figure out. Big list of lenses still not sure how > that > fits in. > > I think we're supposed to be comparing grain patterns on fields of > grey with > white letters which gives us a clue as to what it is. > > Such a thing strikes me as being a comparative test of digital > sharpening > anomalies. I see this thing often. In the digital realm such > comparisons > often have this problem. > > One camera maybe gives us relatively unsharpened images. The other > needs > less sharpening. We have to subjectively match them up before we start > comparing stuff. Like glass. Or general image quality. We also have > to match > color saturation. > If we had a few flowers in the test with some thistles and shreds of > crumpled newspaper we would have something to go on. The head of some > depraved mannequin. > A reality sample. Then a grey card in there we then zoom in on and > check out > the "grain" pattern. > But with no context I'm not sure what we have. > No ground - no figure. Or "go figure". > > Nice of them to take this big hunky quirky here-today-gone-tomorrow > priced > high-as-the-sky Leica thing and compare that against the > omnipresent* Canon > bang for the buck plastique Tupperware. > > > > * > om?ni?pres?ent > 1. continuously and simultaneously present throughout the whole of > creation > 2. present or seemingly present all the time or everywhere > 3. Canon Cameras. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >