Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps, Feli - I said I was sticking my neck out. But why the heavy jpg compression only in those areas where someone would be 'splicing things on' were it a fake? On 8/27/06 2:21 PM, "Feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:31 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> I'll stick my neck out :-) : >> It IS a fake - look at the artifacts around the red dot and little >> blue >> window; look at the artifacts around M8; look at the artifacts >> around the >> lens-release button; and on and on. This thing is almost as obvious >> as the >> Canolyka fake posted a while back. > > That's just heavy jpeg compression. These images came from a screen grab > of a PDF product sheet. Then they were cropped and re-saved. At this > point > you are looking at a xerox of a xerox. > > If there is anything that makes me suspicious, it the slightly clumsy > line > of the top plate. With the advance lever missing it looks a little > out of > balance and I would think that Leica would tweak things a little to > improve it. > > Feli > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net > www.elanphotos.com > > no archive > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information