Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 3/29/06 9:46 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@shaw.ca wrote: > Douglas Herr showed: > Subject: [Leica] two more >> from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, east of San Diego: >>> the Verdin is unique to the desert southwest: >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/remizidae/verd00.html >>> while the Orange-crowned Warbler (orange of crown not always visible) is >>>>> a migrant: >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/parulidae/ocwa00.html > > Hi Doug, > Beautiful, both of them. When the first opened I thought, "WOW! Doug sure > has that DMR thing working beautifully with results like this!" However, > the > colour and subject looked much better than film. That was my first > re-action. > > Then second image the same, blown away again.:-) > > Then I saw this line....>>"both: SL2, 560 f/6.8 + 1.4x APO, Provia 400F"<< > > As I was so sure they were DMR images from what everyone is saying about > it's fantastic results.One has to wonder then, are the DMR results even > better than these 2 photographs on Provia 400F? > > ted > In terms of grain and croppability, the DMR is much much better than Provia 400F. These two photos are pretty much full-frame, while the Western Bluebird with the DMR a few days ago was about 1/3 of the original file. The digital artifacts - at ISO 400, same as the Provia 400F - are becoming apparent with this crop, but nowhere near as much as the grain would be with a similar crop on the 400F. I 'll need more time with this rig to reach any more conclusions, I hope to have some quality time with the DMR and some wildlife this weekend. -- Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com