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Subject: [Leica] A non-scientific comparison of the E3 and M8u
From: rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:45:57 -0800 (PST)
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From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 1:35:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] A non-scientific comparison of the E3 and M8u


On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Wait a minute, I don;t understand. Are you saying that you can easily
> pick up which ones are which?
> 
> Look, my point is simply that for my purpose, I am as happy about my
> E-3 pics as my M8u pics

conditions are not demanding enough to see a difference, between E3, M8, or 
even an iphone...

(but so what....)

a relevant question really is ...what is your purpose ?

Remember that from a certain distance, you can't tell the difference between 
boys and girls....

does that mean there is no difference?


Steve



> , and a number of people say that the Leica
> pics are obviously, intrinsically, better.
> 
> So here's a set of photos, which ones are which and are the Leica
> intrinsically better?
> 
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Richard Man wrote:
>> 
>>> OK, I just cropped everything to 4x3 proportion for now. Enjoy!
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/richardman/E3M8BakeOff
>> 
>> 
>> gosh Richard,
>> 
>> not only is this "demonstration" not scientific as you say, it's not up 
>> to the task...
>> 
>> so which ones are from your iphone?
>> 
>> joking, just joking.....
>> 
>> 
>> you are simply proving that we all see what we want to see....
>> 
>> serious....
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
> // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog:
> http://rfman.wordpress.com
> // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963
> 
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