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Subject: [Leica] OT: D3x vs 'Blad CFV 16MP full sized samples
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:19:44 -0500
References: <41C24C1D-9BE1-4FF8-9718-01876E26F4FB@gmail.com> <36172e5a0905281714q742471b4ha8c4f9f6814267e0@mail.gmail.com>

certainly a nice sample
but also a tad artifacty

the only way to really make this kind of judgement
is to look at the actual raw files and large prints.

also
Ming is shooting with M8 and knows how the files appear

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On May 28, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> For comparison if you are interested. Go to my temp gallery. Last  
> shot is
> uncropped from M8 with the APO Summicron 75 ASPH. Downconverted to  
> jpg and
> sRGB. Capture and some web sharpening applied.
> Clicking on thumbnail will go direct to full size jpg of about 3MB  
> (light
> compression).
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/te/
>
>
>
> 2009/5/29 Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
>
>> For George, Mark and anybody else who might be interested...some  
>> full sized
>> files (JPEG, converted from RAW using ACR) from the D3x (with  
>> 24-70/2.8 and
>> 105VR micro; arguably two of the best lenses Nikon has today) and  
>> Hasselblad
>> CFV 16MP back (with 80/2.8 standard lens).
>>
>> *CAVEATS*: The CFV was shot handheld, available light except for the
>> landscape shot. I'd use only the landscape to judge quality. We  
>> were going
>> to do a studio shoot, but the back kept bricking itself requiring  
>> multiple
>> battery-out resets (kinda like the first M8 I used when shooting C  
>> mode and
>> discrete advance) but eventually just bricked itself. The D3x was  
>> shot
>> entirely handheld, though the watch shot was with studio lighting  
>> (aside
>> from photojournalism, watch photography is my other speciality.  
>> When I did
>> it commercially I was using a D2H or D200 and the 85/2.8 PC Micro,  
>> not MF.)
>>
>> EXIF data intact but ignore the 'blad data because it doesn't  
>> register
>> aperture, and I'm pretty sure the shutter speeds are all wrong.  
>> D3x of
>> course tells you everything including the nutritional content of my
>> breakfast of three days prior. Hosting on fickr because I don't  
>> have the
>> server bandwidth otherwise.
>>
>> 'Blad
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3409/3573849245_4776a4c694_o.jpg
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3573842195_769c55cfb0_o.jpg
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3573839191_da9b5f0bf1_o.jpg
>>
>>
>> D3x
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3573831647_f85b31aa81_o.jpg
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3574628948_2e7197f2ff_o.jpg
>> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3574623624_70e7d3ae08_o.jpg
>>
>> Note the fine texture resolved by the D3x in the lady's top.
>>
>>
>> For some odd reason, looking at the images again, the 'blad output  
>> reminds
>> me a lot of the M8. Maybe it's the highlight tone bias and lack of AA
>> filter.
>>
>> Ming
>>
>> THEIN Onn Ming
>> *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com
>> www.flickr.com/mingthein
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
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