Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/27

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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 22:58:46 -0800
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Doug,
Thanks.  When I shot with the new M9 in Laguna Beach a few years ago, I 
thought I could detect a Leica look on the view screen on the camera looking 
at hand-held portraits shot in dim light.
Jon

-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug Herr
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:55 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X 100 versus Leica M9

Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

>
>Jon,
>You can make out with JPGs? You have much better eyesight than I have!
>

Richard Man wrote:

>
>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?
>>
>

Several years ago when I used (briefly) a Canon L lens several people 
e-mailed after seeing the photos on my website and asked "What happened? 
You've lost some color and detail."  There was nothing on the web pages 
indicating the equipment I had used.  Apparently such differences can be 
seen in web-sized jpgs.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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