[Leica] Re:New 12.8 megapixel 5D. Leicanon!

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 4:04 PM +0200 10/19/05, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:
>>Ted:
>>
>>Take a look at wide shots from the 5D.  All the 
>>image is smeared looking other than the central 
>>portion.  I have seen this both with the fine 
>>Canon L wides and the finest of the Leica 
>>wides.  If you ever heard the expression "If it 
>>looks too good to be true?"  The 1Ds MK II 
>>doesn't seem to suffer from this problem with 
>>the wides.
>>
>>Regards,
>
>Ted
>
>
>I'm just shooting right now with 5D and 14mm 
>f2.8, 16-35mm f2.8 and 24-105mm f4. It's too 
>early for  having complete conclusions but 
>saying that "all the image is smeared...other 
>than central portion" is merely an exaggeration, 
>and I'm a user of Leica R with 21-35mm zoom and 
>Leica M with 21mm lenses. You have shot many, 
>many pictures with your -excellent- Canon 20D, 
>just give the 5D an opportunity! There are some 
>important members of the LUG -I don't need 
>mentioning them-  who started shooting with 
>digital Canon "and" Leica lenses. Good match. 
>But I'm watching that, more and more, they are 
>actually  using  right now Canon lenses too.
>
>Regards
>
>Felix

The images from the 5D that I shot show a very 
high image quality, and you can shoot as wide as 
12mm, and you can get the shallow depth of field 
that an 85/1.2, with attendant field of view will 
produce, all from a body that is quite compact 
and handles well. On top of that the low light 
capability and quality is unmatched at this time.

It's not the best choice for Leica-R wideangles, 
but it does things that you can't do with the 
DMR, or the 20D, or with a 22mp MF back, or a 
141mp non-Bayer Betterlight scanning back, and 
for a price that can't get you a 1Ds. It has its 
place, and I feel is an incredibly good value at 
this point.

I'm delighted that Leica has produced a digital 
solution that produces, within certain 
parameters, images of a quality that can compete 
with the best other 35mm based solutions, but it 
is a compromise as are all cameras. I hope that 
it succeeds, because Leica depends on it and I 
want to see the Digital-M produced, and I want 
Leica to stay in business to make more high 
quality products.

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