Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brand names maybe not though on and off many of us have claimed that your Leica pix have "the Leica glow" the some can spot right off the light table. Sal claimed that. I noticed the difference from my 11x14s with my very first non cutting edge modern Leica lens than the results I'd gotten the past decades with my nikon glass. Had I not noticed the difference I'd sure have not gotten into Leica I could have gotten lots of peanut butter sandwiches instead of that Leica glass. If you can't tell the different what's the point? Or feel like you can. Showing my prints to Luggers when they come to town they've said my Leica glass shots look better. They think the whole Leica thing is worth it. But you'd expect that. - we didn't do a blind test (try to guess which was shot with the Leica). Those darkroom shots I show less and less people and the inkjets the difference is less clear. And I am standardized at 5x7 now that's what most people see. They try to guess the scans from the captures sometimes. Last week An old lady at B&H buying ink carts next to me for our Epson 3800's she said the first print she pulled from her printer was a 17x22". I've not gone there yet I'm just keeping up with the cost of replacing carts with what I'm doing now. And when you print 5x7 you don't have to settle for less then the very best paper. Thick rich rag. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:11:36 +0530 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Format output obviousness > > Mark, > As usual you digress into irrelevancies. The question is, in clear English > so that you should not misunderstand again: > > Can you tell the difference between, say, Canon, Nikon and Leica without > knowing beforehand which was used? > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > rabinergroup.com>wrote: > >> Every portfolio I've ever had or stack of prints; and every stack of >> prints >> other photographers have shown me I've always known which ones of my >> prints >> were 35mm, Medium format, or sheet film and I didn't have to bother >> telling >> them and they didn't have to bother telling me; as we all knew at first >> glance. >> I can normally easily tell the difference between a full frame digital >> image >> even at low output and cropped format digital output and I think many >> people >> can with any experience. And certainly the difference between that and >> point >> and shoots with sensors the size of my pinky nail. And the 2x crop in >> between. And medium format digital blows me right out of the water at >> least >> my eyeballs. >> If you can't tell the difference between your large and smaller format >> digital output the time to hang it up is now. >> Take up audio. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> . >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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