[Leica] Just for kicks

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

The short answer is the Q3 images would suffice, especially since the jpeg
process degraded the images to some degree.  We have been drawn into the
sharper, contrastier, better fine detail path that is not always
appropriate.  Maybe the numismatic collectors and biologists for record
shots is this level of detail very important.  I say this owning some
absolutely spectacular lenses but find myself using very flawed lenses for
their faults when appropriate.

I really do appreciate the level of professionalism you display with your
stacked images.  I am rarely willing to take out the tripod to stack images
even though I have a camera that will automatically move focus in whatever
increment and number of increments I need.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 12:57?PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I finally got around to taking some photos of some Queen Anne Lace seed
> pods that I have had laying around since August.  For kicks I used the
> Q3  on a tripod and cropped heavily.  All three of these photos are
> stacked images.  View them large if you can.
>
> Here is the full scene as close as I could get with the Q3 in Macro mode.
>
> Queen Anne Lace-1000821-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Queen+Anne+Lace-1000821-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> So, here is a crop of a portion of the seed pods.
>
> Queen Anne Lace-1000821-Edit-2 (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Queen+Anne+Lace-1000821-Edit-2.jpg.html
> >
>
> Here is the "just for kicks" part.  I chose that amount of crop because
> before I did these, I was taking the photos using the Leica 100/2.8 APO
> with the 1:1 Elpro on my Nikon Z7ii.  So, here is a shot from that great
> lens and it is full frame, not cropped. Really no comparison, but I am
> wondering if you did not see this shot, would you be satisfied with the
> cropped Q3 shot above?
>
> Queen Anne Lace-6352-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Queen+Anne+Lace-6352-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> Of course, all three of these shots are reduced in size JPEGs for
> posting on the web.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
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> & Unemployed photographer
>
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