Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While I do not disagree that it is risky to make judgments based on 800x600 pixel images on the web, I will still submit that I can see differences between good and bad lenses even at that resulution. At least we can regard them as indications. The final decision has to be based on a full-size image, as you say. My decision to buy an M8 was made after Hoppy the Aussie Leica Pusher e-mailed me some DNG files from his camera. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > To me this is a scan of a size (1701 x 2048) which has some meaning; > Unlike 99.9 of the posts of the lug which has people saying: > "this lens took this picture ant that lens took that picture" > Then people I assume run out and buy the lens having seen the shot. > With rez good for a postage stamp. Could have been done with a > cardboard > throw away digital camera. Once they start making them. > Looking at this image I get what I think is a real feel for the lens; > What it can do. Its real exciting and a real pleasure to behold. > > Is it the sharpest lens in the history of photography? > I think so. > > I'm looking at eye lashes; > Individual ones, you can count them. > And the split ends at the ends of them > > Indoors wide open hand held. > > > That's sharp. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:57:19 -0400 >> To: <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Another 75mm-Summilux-on-M8 example >> >> Just grabbed this one last night. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/3358536031/sizes/o/ >> >> (Sure, it's handheld in room light at ISO 1250, so it's nothing >> like as >> preternaturally detailed as that frame Tina showed; but this shows >> the >> lens's usefulness for the way I've been working). >> >> This is part of the WFMU set I already pimped, so you needn't >> follow the >> link if you've already been there. >> >> By the way, about the M8 at 1250 -- does it seem to anyone else that >> high ISOs look a lot better than they did when the camera was >> released? >> I'm thinking they've done some firmware magic or something. >> >> -Jeff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information