stunsworth Posted November 25, 2009 Share #21 Posted November 25, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) How are my Digital camera going to work when it gets -40 in month in alberta? The operational temperature range as specified by the manufacturers is identical for both the D3 and M9. The lower end of the range is 0 C in both cases. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 Hi stunsworth, Take a look here Puts M9 part 8a is up. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
HaraldL Posted November 25, 2009 Share #22 Posted November 25, 2009 I'm sure that many of us will stick to film in case of black and white. Erwin's tests compare the very best of film (black and white) to digital (and not the monochrome M9.2...). Would be most interesting to compare Ektar 100 or Provia with an M9. Anyone already performed that in-depth analysis like Erwin? Harald Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted November 25, 2009 Share #23 Posted November 25, 2009 Don't knock it without trying for yourself how good film based photography is these days. What I mean by that is the big improvement in films and lenses, and scanners available in many high street processing labs that offer almost drum scan quality and at very reasonable prices. I recently used some of Kodak's new Ektar 100 negative film on modern Leica glass, and was staggered by the true detail. It looked beautiful too. Another thing one should not forget is how much we've all learnt in the art of post processing files. So, shoot a bit of film, get it properly scanned, then pop it into Lightroom (for example) - it's truly amazing what can be achieved with very little effort. It's not better than digital, but it reassures me film has unique strengths which stand as tall as the obvious benefits and strengths of digital. A lot of pro photographers I meet in the course of my assignments are increasingly carrying a film camera (usually an M), with a sizable number talking about the possibility of shooting whole assignments on film purely for the look. +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share #24 Posted November 26, 2009 My gollywumpus, guys! To my reading, Erwin says the M9 is good and in some situations as good as film; but the Leica lenses we're using have more to give, and to date the only place to extract their capabilities is with very special high-resolution film. It's not film vs digital, it's film and digital (as a number of you have said). I also read the title of the article "M9 part 8 section a" as an ironic take on Canon's nomenclature--"1DS mark XIV n version 2 with service pack 2.7b etc." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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