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That one is an expensive version of the TC1411 Sigma one which comes with the rebranded Sigma 100-400 The only Leica lens for which it can be used.
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Who Does DXO Rate the Leica APO-Summicron-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH so Poorly?
jaapv replied to lencap's topic in L-Mount Lenses
Yes, the electronic corrections will cause some resolution loss towards the corners but that is compensated by the extra freedom allowed by being able to correct the optical part better; optical design is always about shifting aberrations. I would like to see a comparison to a lens with an optical distortion correction which will lead to quality loss as well. I strongly suspect that the digital correction leads to fess negative impact. Comparing a lens with uncorrected distortion to one with distortion correction makes little sense. One should compare a lens with digital correction to one with optical correction. BTW I am a bit lost when you mention stretching pixels. How does one perform an analog operation like stretching on a digital entity like a pixel? -
I beg to differ. If an image is worth keeping it is worth optimizing. If not I will use my iPhone. And even then I will run quite a few through Snapseed or PS Express.
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Why I stayed with SL 601 instead of upgrading to SL2
jaapv replied to pf4eva's topic in Leica SL System
I must haver struck it lucky. My SL fires consistently. -
Monochrom DNG for SL3. Let's make it happen.
jaapv replied to FlashGordonPhotography's topic in Leica SL System
Skipping interpolation is a smart move as it mitigates the resolution loss problem. However the aberrations introduced by the microfilters of the Bayer array will remain. -
Monochrom DNG for SL3. Let's make it happen.
jaapv replied to FlashGordonPhotography's topic in Leica SL System
I rarely use LR but can’t you just use the B&W option in Basic? You won’t lose your DNG as LR is non-destructive and will only convert your DNG during Export whilst applying your edits of course. -
Who Does DXO Rate the Leica APO-Summicron-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH so Poorly?
jaapv replied to lencap's topic in L-Mount Lenses
Nowadays nearly all lenses are of hybrid design, which means that digital distortion correction is designed into the complete optical formula. Viewing the lens without the digital part of the design is equivalent to removing one lens element and then judging the lens. Not only with Leica but with virtually all lens makers, except for a few small ones that lack the resources to implement hybrid designs. -
Monochrom DNG for SL3. Let's make it happen.
jaapv replied to FlashGordonPhotography's topic in Leica SL System
You don’t lose your colour channels with a Monochrom camera, just convert Greyscale to RGB very useful to create toning and to use Neural Filters like Colorize. The advantage of a monochrome sensor is not the fact that it produces an output without colour information but that it does so by not having a Bayer Filer -so no filter aberrations- and no interpolation thus no 30 % resolution loss One pixel on the sensor is one pixel in the print. A monochrome DNG from a color sensor would lose those advantages and would be exactly the same as a decolorized file in Photoshop. -
Leica changed the diopter design to improve eye relief.
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That was true five years ago. Now noise reducing programs are AI driven not to lose detail whilst reducing noise and have far more user control.
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This
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Well, an estimated 95% of us do…
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The Leica looks are indeed a transparent marketing attempt. I hope that I am a better photographer than to rely on the attempts of software engineers to steal my photographic creativity and throw more than half of the potential quality in the rubbish bin. When I still shot film I also refused to accept Supermarket prints. Fuji caters to another segment of the photographic market, so the attention to OOC results is understandable.
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Any interest in a quick meeting in Rotterdam in April ‘24?
jaapv replied to Alberti's topic in Events & Member Meetings
Very interested, but I have an overly chaotic and full agenda in April. If I can make it, I will attend.