Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wider Zeiss Lens on an M9
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:42:01 +1000
References: <COL119-W58FCB1F8FA13FADCA2BCE782820@phx.gbl> <36172e5a0912210116o4b203605y29b20fdb988aa558@mail.gmail.com> <4B2F45F2.6010208@gmx.de>

Douglas I see that the pixelation also but I don't think that is lens or
camera related. Something in Post for sure. Compression, tonal manipulation
(usual suspects) but could also be a product of viewing in our browsers
(e.g. colour space related)  Also possibly in gallery conversion.

2009/12/21 Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>

> Greg,
>
> Apart from the spots Geoff mentions (IMO, probably the most annoying aspect
> of digital photography - I always forget to clean the sensors of my 
> Canons),
> I see moderate pixelisation (?) effects in the sky, quite strong above and
> below the moon.
>
> Otherwise, a fine example underlining the almost legendary quality and
> performance of Zeiss optics.
>
> I've observed similar effects after using Lightroom and CS2 on some of my
> shots.
>
> BTW: I've always found Zeiss lenses to be quite different in their colour
> rendition, On SLRs and DSLRs, the Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/135 is totally different
> from the Leica Elmarit-R 2.8/135. I actually prefer the Zeiss, it seems 
> much
> cooler and clearer.
>
> Douglas
>
> Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> Looks FINE Greg. Same excellent performance they they are reported to have
>> with the M8 and film M's.
>> ps. clean your sensor, the sky is a cruel mistress at high magnification
>> and
>> smaller stops ;-)
>> Have you coded it or set as a L lens in manual?
>>
>> 2009/12/21 Greg Lorenzo <gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>> In this example the 25/2.8 lens which I find renders colour differently
>>> then the Leica 24/2.8 lens.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Greg+Lorenzo/Taliesin_West_Main.jpg.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg Lorenzo
>>>
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-- 
Cheers
Geoff
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