specpro Posted November 20, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 20, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 Hi specpro, Take a look here M9 and M7 sample image comparisons. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
chrism Posted November 20, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 20, 2009 There are so many different steps between leaving the two cameras and hitting the printed page I would find it hard to know what such a comparison means.... Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayerische Posted November 20, 2009 Share #3 Posted November 20, 2009 (edited) I can't see any point in that comparison. Conclusion; Film is not digital. Digital is not film. Oh look, the sentences are exactly the same length! Edited November 20, 2009 by bayerische typo Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
specpro Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted November 20, 2009 Yeah totally agree with you. The comparison is just my interpretation of what the article is about. Would be good to have someone translate the captions to see what the article is actually getting at. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 20, 2009 Share #5 Posted November 20, 2009 Can you just post that on your blog within copyright? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanidel Posted November 20, 2009 Share #6 Posted November 20, 2009 Can you just post that on your blog within copyright? I guess it falls within fair use since only an extract is reproduced and sources are clearly mentioned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyTot Posted November 20, 2009 Share #7 Posted November 20, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can you just post that on your blog within copyright? Forever the Junk Yard Dog, Jaapv !! So not just Leica then, it's the world now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat_mcdermott Posted November 20, 2009 Share #8 Posted November 20, 2009 You can get away with that sort of excerpt under fair use. It's comment/criticism. Though you could certainly find two copyright lawyers to genuinely argue either side of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted November 20, 2009 Share #9 Posted November 20, 2009 Well copyright discussions aside.... one thing's for sure: film rocks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 20, 2009 Share #10 Posted November 20, 2009 Well copyright discussions aside.... one thing's for sure: film rocks! Well, that is one of the problems - it is easier to get focus on a medium that stays in one place:p Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted November 20, 2009 Share #11 Posted November 20, 2009 Well copyright discussions aside.... one thing's for sure: film rocks! +1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlatkob Posted November 20, 2009 Share #12 Posted November 20, 2009 It's quite evident that digital rocks too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mc_k Posted November 20, 2009 Share #13 Posted November 20, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited November 20, 2009 by mckeough_k Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted November 20, 2009 Share #14 Posted November 20, 2009 Film is not digital. Digital is not film. The first sentence appears in fact longer! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted November 20, 2009 Share #15 Posted November 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted November 20, 2009 Share #16 Posted November 20, 2009 I agree and what you are saying is actually good news for anybody using film M's and keen to go digital. Regards 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted November 20, 2009 Share #17 Posted November 20, 2009 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted November 20, 2009 Share #18 Posted November 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjphoto Posted November 21, 2009 Share #19 Posted November 21, 2009 Wow ! Is there a waiting list for the M7? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted November 21, 2009 Share #20 Posted November 21, 2009 Spec,Can you post the 2 original pictures here ? Thanks 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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