Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/11

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Subject: [Leica] for those about to sell their DMR
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 22:10:20 2007

Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:

> But here is my point. That 5d 12 bit sensor just doesn't match up to the
> DMR's Imacon 16 bit chip.
> I know there are reasons. 16 bit for one. No AA filter. Etc..
> But it ain't the same folks. Shadow zones are good but not DMR-super.
> Pulling details from the shadow feels like stretching out cheescloth. It
> gets thin, noisy and weird.

I think what Eric is getting at here is that if you sell a DMR, your
memories of the image quality it can produce will 
haunt you.  It would do that to me.

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


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