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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9
From: jon.streeter at cox.net (Jon Streeter)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:56:34 -0800
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I've suspected as much.  :D

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Man
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:48 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9

Jon, fairy dust sprinkled by the Leica wizards!!!


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:40 PM, jon.streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> 
wrote:

> When I see Leica photos posted here, they seem to have a sharpness and,
> sometimes, luminescence, beautiful bokeh, microcontrast perhaps, that sets
> them apart from other cameras with sensors rated higher by DXO.  But it's
> hardly a meaningful test since I've been a Leica fan since high school, so
> I'm biased.  Furthermore, I know which photographs were done with Leica
> glass.  Still, they do seem better, and I'm curious about how that's
> possible if Leica sensors are so low in DXO's ratings.  Software?  Lenses?
>  Superb photographers?
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9
> Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 6:59 pm
>
>
> DXO labs have some parts which do not suit CCD (M9 and medium format), low
> light/high ASA I think.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> The dxo lab also said a Nikon D800 makes for better results than medium
> format digtial. I'd just have to see that to believe and and am not
> believing it. Are top pros really going to not go medium format now 
> because
> of that camera. I'm thinking it wont influence many away from shooting
> medium format digital where it had been used before for 90 percent of the
> stuff.
>
> I've head a medium format digital Epson mat prints in my hand at Photokina
> a large print and it was exactly better than anything I'd seen full frame
> as a medium format film out put is over 35mm output.
> More so even.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
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