Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dpreview. Ha. Come on, wait til the camera gets used by real photographers in the real world. Chris Williams www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 > On Oct 29, 2015, at 11:24 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > wrote: > > That is a somewhat frustrating first look review from them for me. I used > to follow their reviews on many brands where they provided good features > description, handling and impressions even in first looks, I think. Perhaps > they will add more later. > > Their comment on the default DNG profile (and default JPEG rendering) > reflects that it was not yet optimised when they tested. Adobe will > doubtless address that (as they have just done in the newest raw processing > for S (Typ 007) DNG's). > > Re the banding comments, when I read this is a problem at base ISO if you > push the file by five or six EV, I feel like this has got into the realm > of theoretical analysis absent practical use of the camera. How many of us > would expect no loss of quality in that circumstance? > It doesn't matter about the equipment brand, surely this is hardly relevant > in practical use? Personally I have sometimes been surprised at just how > much information is in the shadows from the M (Typ 240) and S2 for > example. But if I needed to fix an underexposure by that much it would need > to be a Pulitzer Prize candidate image for me to admit that I got the > exposure that wrong in the first place. > > I don't think that direct camera to camera performance comparisons are > necessarily sensible either when they are not even being compared with the > same optics for example. The 'real world samples' they provide were > evidently with a Summilux 35 (unknown model). Must be an M lens with > adapter I guess. > Maybe if the review is updated to talk about the actual camera features and > their experience in using it with the first to be released lens It might be > more interesting/relevant for me in any case. > > No-one even has a serial camera yet as far as I know yet there is no > shortage of criticism it seems. Maybe the 'it's too big, Leica should.....' > theme is lessening at least ;-) DPreview bear some responsibility for > influencing that with a misleading image too, as I recall. > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Cc: > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:39:35 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Leica] BIG new Leica > See > http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9955093579/leica-sl-typ601-in-depth-camera-review/3 > > "[The Leica SL's] shadow performance can be significantly undermined by > the hard-to-correct-for banding." > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/> > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information