ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #101 Posted March 4, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 4 hours ago, jaapv said: I did not refer to your comment. ... Ah, you inverted the usual order of quotation ... usually, the quotation precedes what a comment about it is saying. Confusing. G 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 Hi ramarren, Take a look here Pixii - complementary or competition? [Merged]. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #102 Posted March 4, 2022 3 hours ago, loloboubou1 said: Sorry, I'm used to French forums with few people 😉 and ... I'm more busy taking pictures than discussing them learnedly. For those who can't find the flickr group it's here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14783460@N20/pool/ ... Laurent, thank you for providing the link. The problem I had searching Flickr.com was that your original statement was "Pixxi and new Pixii" but the actual title of your group differs "Pixii et new Pixii". Unfortunately, the Flickr.com search engine is quite literal when searching for a group name... Some lovely photos there, I wandered through a bunch of them and joined the group. I'm sorry: I don't use either Instagram or FaceBook very much ... lack of time. Like you, I prefer to spend more time working on my photography and doing other stuff than managing conversations on too many 'socials'. Keep going, keep posting great photos! I don't have a Pixii yet, but I suspect that will change soon. G 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #103 Posted March 4, 2022 Gosh, Jaapv ... M-mount is "limited vintage mount", CL is "long in the tooth and in limbo". I guess my 1978 Leica M4-2 is a useless antique by those measures, never mind my 1939 Robot II. The limited, vintage M-mount is my choice because it allows me to use the same lenses on EVF (GXR, CL, SL, et al) and RF (M, now Pixii, Epson, et al) cameras nicely. The same cannot be said of L-mount or any other electronically controlled lens mount .. if the electronic control isn't there, the lens is useless. And the reason that the simplicity of M-mount is my choice beyond that is that I don't find all the additional conveniences and doo-dads of electronically controlled lenses adds anything of substance to my photography. Obviously, that's my personal perspective. And I do own other systems with electronically controlled lenses, so I do have a basis for making that evaluation first hand ... I don't have to rely upon other people's opinions. G Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 4, 2022 Share #104 Posted March 4, 2022 You know my favourite cameras: M9 and M9M My Leica Standard sees use as well 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 4, 2022 Share #105 Posted March 4, 2022 5 hours ago, jaapv said: limited vintage mount Now I wonder what makes you think so. The M mount is still being catered to; the inventor of that mount still issues even new variants of bodies and there are new lenses for that mount appearing both by Leica and third party providers. Should 'vintage' simply refer to the year when it first appeared on the market, then your electrical car has a vintage engine, since electric motors predate the M mount by a fair number of years. 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loloboubou1 Posted March 4, 2022 Share #106 Posted March 4, 2022 I don't have a dropbox and I don't know how it works. Is there a possibility to have the emails of people interested in Private Message on this forum? With the addresses I can transfer heavy files with the "wetransfer" site. For JAAPV information, my favorite lens on the Pixii is the Elmar M 3.8 24, much more compact than the summilux 24 and if we compare them (NFT curves and especially printed photos) at the same aperture... very few differences. As Pixii climbs very well in ISO and its handling allows me to go down to 1/15 in complete safety, I am very satisfied with it. As far as L lenses and all AF lenses are concerned, the only thing that interests me is: where is the AF off button. I miss the days of focus contests. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 4, 2022 Share #107 Posted March 4, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) The rendering is quite different; and the Elmar does not perform too well at 1.4… For the Elmar look I use the Super Elmar 18. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted March 4, 2022 Share #108 Posted March 4, 2022 11 minutes ago, loloboubou1 said: I don't have a dropbox and I don't know how it works. https://www.dropbox.com/fr/basic Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 4, 2022 Share #109 Posted March 4, 2022 25 minutes ago, pop said: Now I wonder what makes you think so. The M mount is still being catered to; the inventor of that mount still issues even new variants of bodies and there are new lenses for that mount appearing both by Leica and third party providers. Should 'vintage' simply refer to the year when it first appeared on the market, then your electrical car has a vintage engine, since electric motors predate the M mount by a fair number of years. Of course. Leica is big on retro-compatibility and M cameras sell very well for a niche product. But the universal Leica mount nowadays is the L mount. As for electric motors, there has been really no revolutionary progress since Tesla invented the linear electric motor, unlike the rapidly changing camera technology. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #110 Posted March 4, 2022 Funny how their "universal' mount isn't incorporated into the most visible and popular Leica camera product line. G 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted March 4, 2022 Share #112 Posted March 4, 2022 45 minutes ago, ramarren said: Funny how their "universal' mount isn't incorporated into the most visible and popular Leica camera product line. G Hmmm - Do you mean the SL series, including Panasonic and Sigma? I would say that the Q is the most popular. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loloboubou1 Posted March 4, 2022 Share #113 Posted March 4, 2022 2 hours ago, jaapv said: As for electric motors, there has been really no revolutionary progress since Tesla invented the linear electric motor, unlike the rapidly changing camera technology. You know Tesla (Nicola) ... discover (Hyppolyte) Pixii !!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Pixii Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #114 Posted March 4, 2022 1 hour ago, jaapv said: Hmmm - Do you mean the SL series, including Panasonic and Sigma? I would say that the Q is the most popular. The Leica Q is not an interchangeable lens camera, obviously. I bet the M cameras outsell all the other Leica interchangeable lens cameras still. The Panasonic S1H or whatever they call it probably sells higher volumes than the SL2 (or SL2-S?). It ought to, it's half the price. G Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted March 4, 2022 Share #115 Posted March 4, 2022 2 hours ago, loloboubou1 said: I don't have a dropbox and I don't know how it works. ... As far as L lenses and all AF lenses are concerned, the only thing that interests me is: where is the AF off button. I miss the days of focus contests. lct sent you the DropBox basic info link already. It's pretty easy .. for free you get 20 Gbytes worth of storage and you can just create a Shared folder for anything you want to share out to others. Much better than everyone having to send you their email addresses or have to use a file transfer service that they're not familiar with. I've never used "wetransfer" and am leery of having to give another third party service access to reading and writing data on my system. Of course, if you use Flickr, you can also store whatever image files you want there (JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, PNG, most raw formats, etc) as private, and then send a link to authorized folks who would like to have them. I do this quite frequently. ... With an L-mount lens (Leica SL or TL lens series, Sigma or Panasonic L-mount lenses...), the autofocus-manual focus mode toggle is implemented in the body. If I owned any, with the CL I'd assign one of the customizable buttons (FN or the Right Wheel Button) to allow one-press focus mode toggling, presuming that I found the need to toggle back and forth between AF and MF frequently. Since I only use M- and R-mount lenses on the CL, the option isn't available. G Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loloboubou1 Posted March 4, 2022 Share #116 Posted March 4, 2022 Hello Lct, Ramarren and others curious. I created a DNG Pixii folder on Dropbox. I placed very different files there and not necessarily "beautiful photos": monochrome native DNG, Bayer, landscapes, clouds-laden skies, streets, portraits, night, mist, colorful luna park, ... Most of them clearly exposed on the left (preservation of HL) which modified my usual exposure routines. Under LR the material is quickly found https://www.dropbox.com/sh/32s60kh2tj0b4em/AABbWy4uWeJ44WPUltl-zJPCa?dl=0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted March 5, 2022 Share #117 Posted March 5, 2022 1 hour ago, loloboubou1 said: Hello Lct, Ramarren and others curious. I created a DNG Pixii folder on Dropbox. I placed very different files there and not necessarily "beautiful photos": monochrome native DNG, Bayer, landscapes, clouds-laden skies, streets, portraits, night, mist, colorful luna park, ... Most of them clearly exposed on the left (preservation of HL) which modified my usual exposure routines. Under LR the material is quickly found https://www.dropbox.com/sh/32s60kh2tj0b4em/AABbWy4uWeJ44WPUltl-zJPCa?dl=0 Thank you much Are these out-of-camera DNG files or did you adjust them in post production? Just curious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loloboubou1 Posted March 5, 2022 Share #118 Posted March 5, 2022 Out of camera naturally ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted March 5, 2022 Share #119 Posted March 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, loloboubou1 said: Out of camera naturally ! Just asking because Lightroom 11.1 Classic for Mac is mentioned in the exif data. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko.Fe. Posted March 5, 2022 Share #120 Posted March 5, 2022 Image wise current PX3I is nothing special, which is better from initial just totally nothing special. It receives adequate interest. Next to none. I was watching one and only decent reviews of this camera on YT. IMO. Not close to "competition" and has nothing to do with "complementary" . If you have ego disposable cash, it is what else to buy to be special (while you can't take decent picture) thing. Or you want to support independent goof who has some access to cash and wants to try something different, while choosing RF simply because it allows to cut AF complications. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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