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I wish you had not posted these examples....I have been looking at my H3DII 39 and technical camera and thinking...these are very very compelling captures.Leica S2 - 70 mm
maybe to sharp for you gogopix? You can have also a 100% view of the ship if you want..
Bob, don't let my experience put you off at all, please! I will be back into the S system at some point but for now I just needed something that needed no more testing and that had to be a system I was already well versed in. The sensor issues I had are by all accounts a run of bad luck experienced by no one but me. Everyone has seen the posts I made of them but no one else has so far come up with anything similar so if you like the files, go for it!I wish you had not posted these examples....I have been looking at my H3DII 39 and technical camera and thinking...these are very very compelling captures.
They may be a bit oversharp for the web...real question is how do they print?
Personally I think they may be just a bit crisp but I know that if I were to sharpen for output at 360 on an Epson this would be very close.
Gorgeous color, dimensionality and clarity.
I would love to take these and work them over....
I downloaded Guy's S2 files and love how they can be manipulated...they do not seem fragile at all.
If it were not for Tashley's bad experiences I would be sorely tempted.:thumbs:
Bob
Actually I find this image quite disturbing. The focus on the left stump or boat tie down is very sharp but the water tower is sharp in the distance but at the same distance as the boat tie down the right side is completely out of focus. This makes zero sense to me. The yellow should be sharp but the red in the background shot at F8 really should not be holding sharpness at that level given the boat tie down is pretty close. I find this weird myself but maybe I'm nuts. No offense either but these are over sharpened and look unnatural. I shot the S2 and the 70 this system is no better than my Phase sorry. Actually I thought the 180 S2 lens was the better lens. Honestly I don't care either way but this looks funky to me and NOT my experience with the S2 processed very carefully. Marks looks more on the mark to me
Exactly --- or more precisely swings AND tilts! That image looks like the lens plane is not parallel to the sensor, with lens angled slightly up and right relatively. Or it could possibly be partially what Thomas was referring to, soft corner performance exacerbating the effect. According to the EXIF the shot was taken at f8, so I am surprised by this behavior. Methinks some gear testing may be in order for xpixel...I didn't know that the S2 had swings
yes, possibly. It looks like my P45 that first had a tilted, swinged and rotated sensor... Back then the service replaced the entire sensor mounting.That image looks like the lens plane is not parallel to the sensor, with lens angled slightly up and right relatively.