Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] Why we all should buy an Alpa :-)
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:31:05 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-FQ14uXQCWRb4HEd5W2EtasNVRD9BCfRx2pCqJzkm+s8Q@mail.gmail.com>

A lot of this is BS, especially the audio part.

The argument about the jitters in the order of picoseconds is total BS. The
argument doesn't even take in consideration the impacts of the listener's
own heart beat, movements of the air in the room, etc, which have an impact
several orders of magnitude greater.

The comparison of two photographs is also BS. The angles are different, and
most likely, exposure settings are different. Distortion in the first
example? Probably mostly from the difference in the perspective. Contrast?
Differences in sensor characteristics and RAW->JPEG conversion.

Just because you one sense a difference doesn't mean that the differences
are caused by the factors one believes make the difference. The argument is
hardly scientific, and hardly rises above the marketing-driven,
non-scientific, subjective articles common in "audiophile" or other rags.

Different tools for different purposes. There is no such thing as "best"

Ugh.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

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> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/understanding-series/everything_matters__it_is_all_about_the_small_details.shtml
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> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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Ken Iisaka
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