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M9 and M7 sample image comparisons

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re the comment below the pictures, I think the M9 picture is slightly overexposed, not the other way around. Face and jacket are a little blocked.

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adan

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Realistically, I doubt anyone could have picked which was film and which was digital if we didn't have the hints of the little cameras beside each picture. At least at this size.

 

Bokeh blurs in the trees at top make me think different lenses or different apertures were used for each shot, which skews the results, anyway.

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Steve Ash

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I agree and what you are saying is actually good news for anybody using film M's and keen to go digital.

 

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Steve

 

Realistically, I doubt anyone could have picked which was film and which was digital if we didn't have the hints of the little cameras beside each picture. At least at this size.

 

Bokeh blurs in the trees at top make me think different lenses or different apertures were used for each shot, which skews the results, anyway.

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Doc Henry

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Just picked up the latest issue of Nippon Camera and it has got a nice article in it with some sample image comparisons from M9 and M7.

 

I've posted an excerpt of the article with a couple of images on my blog:

 

Sample Image Comparisons from Leica M9 and M7

Spec,

Can you post the 2 original pictures here ?

Thanks

Henry

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plasticman

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Realistically, I doubt anyone could have picked which was film and which was digital if we didn't have the hints of the little cameras beside each picture. At least at this size.

 

Bokeh blurs in the trees at top make me think different lenses or different apertures were used for each shot, which skews the results, anyway.

 

Come on Andy - there are plenty of ways you could see which was which, including dynamic range, the out-of-focus characteristics, abrupt highlight transition of digital etc etc.

The identical lens and settings are listed to the right of the images: Summilux50 1,4ASPH; both images shot at f1,4.

 

I think the interesting thing isn't which is better or worse (that discussion would be endless), but rather how different they are.

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Spec,

Can you post the 2 original pictures here ?

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Henry

 

I'm sure Henry appreciates, after a moment's thought, that this exemplifies what I was alluding to above. "Original pictures" means which ones, at what stage and when? The film image in the magazine (which has been developed and printed, then scanned and, presumably, adjusted in an image editor somewhere, or simply scanned at the negative stage, adjusted in an image editor and then exported for pre-press - will have to be scanned again for the 'original' to appear here, after further processing into a suitably small jpeg with the right colour gamut for web browsers. You all know just how many steps the poor old digital image has been through (was it a DNG or a JPEG when it came out of the camera, and into which raw processor or image editor did it arrive? How was it tweaked? To get to the magazine was it printed and scanned or exported as a JPEG, and if so how? Once in the magazine it will need scanning again for the 'original' to appear in this thread and ...... you know the rest! Much as I want to know the answer to how an M7 and an M9 compare, there is no sensible comparison to be made this way. Presumably the jaded editors of the magazine responsible for this mess know all this and decided their readers wouldn't know the difference.

 

Chris

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