GX100: Excellent review by Sean Reid

[sean_reid]

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Mitch try converting your B&W image back to srgb than try posting it up. It should hold

 

That's true. Files that go into Grayscale and are uploaded will appear darker than they should. I always post BW in RGB (sRGB is fine too).

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

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[sean_reid]

Well you can still go to greyscale than to srgb but if your working in RGB right now for the B&W than that is the issue your still in RGB when you post so yes than you certainly need to convert to srgb for the web. Try it and repost that image, it should match your screen now on the tiff

 

Actually for BW you can go to either RGB or sRGB because the gamut isn't going to matter. It's fine if the file is in greyscale prior to being converted to RGB in PS but it shouldn't stay a grayscale file for the web. A grayscale file posted to the web tends to look as if all the shadows have dropped to pure black.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[Guest malland]

Thanks, I'll try that next time.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

[sean_reid]

Wilson's post got me thinking about small sensor cameras and high ISO noise again. And here I'm thinking only about RAW files because all of these cameras trash the JPEGs with smoothing, etc. My daughter's little Canon G2 (with an F/2.0 lens) gives somewhat clean ISO 400 (more like 800) files but, of course, its only 4 MP so the sensor area isn't being pushed as hard.The Digilux 2 is not bad at 400 if A) the subject lighting isn't warm and the exposure is dead on. Still, clean-ish high ISO files are not the raison d'etre (please correct that if needed) of this format.

 

It would be really interesting if someone comes up with a small sensor camera that truly has a high S/N ratio as opposed to just smothering the file in smoothing.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[wlaidlaw]

It is a pity that we can't get hold of the major sensor manufacturers' S/N ratios for various sensors - say a ~10 Mp 1/1.8" from each to give a level playing field. We could then really see who the clever ones were.

 

Wilson

[sean_reid]

It is a pity that we can't get hold of the major sensor manufacturers' S/N ratios for various sensors - say a ~10 Mp 1/1.8" from each to give a level playing field. We could then really see who the clever ones were.

 

Wilson

 

 

That would be interesting. And, of course, it would need to be for a system of sensor + processing engine. I wonder sometimes if it might be possible but isn't cost effective given what the makers feel they can sell these cameras for.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[leicaman94044]

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Does anyone have any experience with the accessory 19mm DW-6 wide conversion lens for the GX100? I'm wondering how images look at lower asa with this lens?

 

Thanks,

Lawrence

[rliamo]

I handled a GR D in a camera shop,and it felt a little vunerable and delicate.Nice Lens (prime?),but for a pocketable camera I don;t know,a bit light,no "heft" to it. Liam

[sean_reid]

I've done a lot of work with both the GR and the GX and the build quality has been fine.

 

Wilson,

 

As I was working today, with the M8 at ISO 160, I asked myself if I would still be interested in the GX even it could only work at ISO 100 and my answer was "yes, I would".

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[sean_reid]

Does anyone have any experience with the accessory 19mm DW-6 wide conversion lens for the GX100? I'm wondering how images look at lower asa with this lens?

 

Thanks,

Lawrence

 

I haven't tested that lens myself but I suppose I could request one and add the results to the review.

 

Cheers,

[Guest malland]

Does anyone have any experience with the accessory 19mm DW-6 wide conversion lens for the GX100? I'm wondering how images look at lower asa with this lens?...

Yes, I been wondering about that; but it's likely that is similar to the 21mm converter lens for the GR-D, which I have and find to be of excellent quality, not unsimilar to the quality of the Leica-M 21ASPH, which is a freat lens.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

[Guest malland]

I handled a GR D in a camera shop,and it felt a little vunerable and delicate.Nice Lens (prime?),but for a pocketable camera I don;t know,a bit light,no "heft" to it. Liam

The GR-D isn't light as a feather and the rubber grip gives a good handle on it, while the GX100 has more heft but I find that it doesn't matter, particularly that I like to shoot these cameras by holding them with my right hand and using the LCD to establish the edges of the shot and then looking at the subject when pressing the shutter.

 

The two cameras are solidly built with magnsium bodies and the only fragille part is obviously the lens telescoping mechanism, which comes into play when you turn the camera on. But that is the same type of mechinism that is on the film GR1 and GR21, of which Ricoh has sold a lot since 1996, without any particular problems. I did read on a web forum a posting by a guy who had disabled his GR-D by sticking it in his pocket with the lens extended, having forgotten to turn it off, but that would be true with all the small sensor cameras.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

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[sean_reid]

Yes, it's the telescoping lenses that seem to be the most vulnerable on all the small sensor cameras. But they need to be lightweight to open easily, zoom easily, etc.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean