Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: 747, Make it happen
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Dec 16 13:14:49 2008

What about using Leica R lenses on Canons?
That gets old fast?



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:20:34 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG:  747, Make it happen
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I think it's a case of "good enough" for most uses.  Most
> photographers don't examine their photos at 100% edge to edge and
> don't need to.  For a small reprint in newspapers and magazines or on
> the web, Canon photos are "good enough"; but stock photographers
> submitting to agencies know that their photos will be examined that
> way and rejected if there are problems.  The Alamy forum has
> complaints daily from people who are not able to get anything to pass
> Quality Control.  I used to have problems with the Canon lenses, too,
> and had quite a few failures.  Since I started submitting M8 photos,
> I have not had a single photo fail Quality Control.
> 
> Also, some Canon lenses are worse than others.  The 16-35 zoom is
> absolutely awful.  The 24/1.4 L is pretty bad.  Wides are much worse
> than longer lenses.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:34 AM 12/16/2008, you wrote:
>> I'd be glad to be using an M8 if I had one but most working photographers
>> out there by far are using Canons turning in Canon pix day after day.
>> What do they think I wonder about these chromatic aberrations and 
>> distortion
>> on the edges?
>> You look at a picture anywhere and odds are it was taken with these 
>> cameras.
>> How do they all get it under control?
>> Do they just ignore it?
>> What's their work around I wonder?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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