This may have been covered on the list before but if not I'd be interested to get peoples reactions.
Before ChristmasI bought myself a Leica CL, a complete toy and I shouldn't have done it :) The reason for getting it was mainly due to the great results I have been getting from my Minolta 5400 scanner. I reasoned that pairing some really fantastic glass with it could create some good results. So... despite the danger of being branded a measurebator (guilty your honour) I have made a comparison between the results from this camera and my Canon 10D. There have been lots of comparisons of digital and film made available on the web but I thought that it was worth adding to the material as something interesting seems to have emerged. I used Fuji Velvia 100F (hadnt used that before either) so I managed to test several things at once. What I found was that the Canon 10D image, upsized in Photoshop CS raw converter, had a comparable - if slightly less good - resolution to the scanned film. Nothing surprising there, it has been noted that the 10D stacks up well against 35mm film. What fascinated me was the apparent lack of colour variation in the 10D image compared with the Film/Camera/Scanner workflow. It led me to wonder if the fantastic noise performance of the 10D is a tradeoff against lower colour resolution. I also wonder if the 1Ds exhibits a similar property. Alternatively am I doing something wildly wrong with the Canon? The colour balance looked great and was a very close global match with the scanner output. The images are posted here if anyone wants to look http://www.architecturalimages.co.uk/architecturalimages/random/ -- Paul R. W. Freeman Photographer m:+44 (0) 7973 165 360 w:www.architecturalimages.co.uk -- ____________________________________________________ Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.newnet.co.uk/av/> and believed to be clean =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
