Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/21

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Subject: [Leica] An unscientific comparison, Leica R8 and Pentax isDS
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun May 21 04:54:00 2006
References: <446DAF18.2050901@hemenway.com> <9b678e0605191718m1882c5a2xb8d6f93ab730e4d7@mail.gmail.com>
 
Hi Don:

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't see any barrel 
distortion there.  I DO see that I had the camera tilted a bit to the right.

I'll try some shots with 14mm of the Air Force chart,

http://www.half-fast.com/USAF1951.pdf

and perhaps a wall of bricks.


Jim, "I shot them for the hell of it, not to make a statement about 
either" Hemenway


Don Dory wrote:

> Jim,
> Well, the 14mm has more barrel distortion.  But 72dpi is not a good 
> place to
> be fanatical.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
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