Advantages: Awesome build quality, easy to handhold,very high overall sharpness of image,neutral colour balance of image Disadvantages: Close focus disappointing, some colour fringing in extreme contrast situations
Having owned a pair of Leitz 10 x 40 BA/N Binoculars and sold them I had always wanted to own a pair of the newer style Trinovids.
The catalogue issued by Leica waxed lyrical about the numerous improvements which had been made over the previous Leitz models.
Obviously the first thing noticed was the improved shape and ergonomics,easy to handhold and focus.Now I'm comparing two different types of binocular as I'd previous owned a pair of 10x40 as opposed to the 8x50's. The main reason for a change was the ability to hold the 8x more steady than the 10x-but that is really the only comparison I have.
Now the business side of things-the optical performance. Leica had clamed big things for it's new range of Binoculars involving new glasses and lens coating and also something called
Phase-Correction coating of the prisms.
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Advantages: from Studio direkt to CMYK, superior image quality Disadvantages: thetered camera, needs continuous light
This is Leica´s very first selfmade digital camera. With the LEICA S 1 Pro, Leica Camera, Solms, has managed to further increase the imaging quality and productivity of the digital studio camera. This increase in performance is achieved with a remarkable sensor which results in a maximum data quality at a high signal to noise ratio. This has a4-fold increase in light sensitivity, meaning that even critical photographic situations at low levels of illumination can be handled more effectively.
The photographer can use the modeling light of his or her existing studio flash equipment for taking the shots, for instance.
The new sensor - including Binning and Anti-flicker - provides a 14 Bit signal for red, green and blue colours which is processed in a 16 bit data path. This results in clean colours without noise
or blooming.
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fotomoto 27.11.2008
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Advantages: fast operation Disadvantages: no info in viewfinder, bad CCD quality, operating time
-pros or pros.
The SD memory cards are nice, as they are about the size of postage stamp and are fast on transfer to the computer.
Fact is that it does not produce very good quality colour (though works quite well at the 1600x1200 JPEG setting - which is what I and many others suspect that the CCD is, using badly-written in-camera firmware which interpolates the file to around 2000x1600 pixels).
However, depending on the light, this setting (1600x1200 pixels) can also produce a lot of noise - especially if you under-expose the picture.
It generally functions better for black and white photography, as you benefit from the unobtrusive design of the Leica M series. However, the file is small - about 5MB as a TIFF - and this is not really enough info for a fractal interpolation program to do a successful upsize.
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lightroom 31.07.2003
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