Paolo.Battista Posted September 19, 2011 Share #1 Â Posted September 19, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) In your experience, which is the best body/sensor (apart from DMR) for use with R lenses as far as B&W rendition is concerned? Personally, I tried the Digilux 3 (which I would judge as good to very good), the Olympus E-410 (fair) and E-3 (good but a step behind the Digilux 3), Nikon D2x (fair to good). I tried the Nikon D7000 with other lenses, and it seemed to really very good, but was unable to test it with R lenses. Tried the Canon 5D Mk II (only few shots in RAW), and while I didn't liked that much the colour rendition, the B&W rendition seemed to me between very good and outstanding. But again, that's the experience of only few shots. Â Best regards. Â Paolo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted September 19, 2011 Share #2 Â Posted September 19, 2011 Paolo, Â For me true beauty of R lenes can only be realised on full frame or next size down sensor sized cameras. DSLR cameras that can support R lenses and are fulll frame are produced by Canon, Nikon and Sony. If APS-C is acceptable as sensor size than list can be expanded to Fuji, Pentax & Sigma. Â How you rank DSLR cameras is mostly matter of brand loyalty and familiarity, not sure many people shoot multiple brands side by side and can declare one brand better than the other for particular shooting. Still individual brands have strengths in particular areas of photography like high ISO for Nikon or high Mp count for Canon or even Leica M (non DSLR) for its traditional portable size, rangefinder focusing and superb optics. Â Quality of B&W image is perhaps more to RAW file developing programme than any other factor, please somebody correct me on this. Â In my experience D700 produces superb images with R lenses, I would say better than some native Nikon lenses, some Nikon lenses are pretty good like 14-24mm f2.8 or fast telephotos of which I use 300mm f2.8 It is all very subjective and I don't do many B&W conversions. Hope this helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted September 19, 2011 Share #3 Â Posted September 19, 2011 Paolo, once my Nikon - M mount adaptor arrives I shall be trying out Leica R lenses with the new Ricoh GXR M-Mount adaptor; watch this space for more details...! Â Regards, Â Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted September 19, 2011 Share #4  Posted September 19, 2011 Paolo, once my Nikon - M mount adaptor arrives I shall be trying out Leica R lenses with the new Ricoh GXR M-Mount adaptor; watch this space for more details...! Regards,  Bill  I will be watching for your posts with keen interest, possibility to use M & R lens on a common digital platform that has optional EVF is irresistible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted September 19, 2011 Share #5 Â Posted September 19, 2011 ... possibility to use M & R lens on a common digital platform that has optional EVF is irresistible. Â My thoughts exactly... Â Regards, Â Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 19, 2011 Share #6  Posted September 19, 2011  In my experience D700 produces superb images with R lenses  Agree 100% Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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