[Leica] Comparison images from D200 and M8

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:28 AM -0700 3/12/07, Robert Rose wrote:
>George,
>
>The Leica images appear sharper to my eye.  Do we know whether the in-camera
>sharpening was different?
>
>Regards,
>Bob Rose
>
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>
>From: Lottermoser George [mailto:imagist3@mac.com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:47 PM
>To: Leica Group Users
>Subject: [Leica] why users love it
>
>Comparison images from D200 and M8
>
><http://www.alexandertufte.com/D200VSM8web/>

I can't speak to what Mr. Tufte did with the images and I believe 
they were raw and not 'in camera processed', but I certainly know 
that the images that come out of the Canon 5D are softer than those 
that come out of the M8. This is talking about raw files; 'in camera 
processing' not having anything to do with it in the usual sense. A 
top quality image from the M8 is always sharper than a top quality 
image from the 5D. The much more aggressive anti-alias filtering of 
the 5D is to blame. Some of the sharpness can be recovered in the 5D 
files, but not all.

As far as I know the anti-alias filtering in the Nikon is less 
aggressive, but still obviously more than that of the M8.

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