Mitch Alland Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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BK - Found it a bit difficult to read your site: on my screen the letters are small (Mac PowerBooK Retina) and increasing the viewing size makes the view too wide, as the line length does not change. Also, sorry, but it's tiresome to read an article written with one-sentence paragraphs.
My concern with the X-T1 is whether the color rendition is one that I would like. I should explain that I have a Leica M9 and don't like the color rendition of the M240 because it looks more like Canon or Nikon than that of the M9. Some people say that it's all a matter of post-processing but others, myself included, think that one can work on trying to get the look of the color of the M9 and M240 close but they will remain different. Obviously some people are better than others at post-processing, but the run-of-mill M240 pictures that I see don't appeal to me in terms of color rendition the way M9 pictures do.
With the current sensor delamination problem of the M9 — mine has had its sensor replaced and has started to delaminate again — has made me start to look at alternatives, but I would not get an M240 because of its color rendition. Your pictures remind me of the M240/Nikon/Canon color rendition and I wonder whether that is typical or whether it's a matter of your style. I do recall seeing a review by "Zack" (don't recall his full name), which had quite a different color look.
Last week I briefly tried out an X-T1 in a store in a shopping mall, where the light was horrible. In Lightroom, I couldn't really come to a conclusion on the color rendition because in that horrible light, any camera would be shown at a disadvantage. What I did see, though, was that the X-T1 auto white balance was fantastic and much better than that of my M9: walking through the shopping center, there ware a lot of different light combination against the background of the flat fluorescent lighting — ares of blue or red LEDs, etc. It was amazing, but in every shot I had taken the X-T1 AWB was spot-on: I didn't have to adjust the WB on a single one. With the M9, I would have had to fiddle extensively to get the WB to where I wanted it probably on every shot.
The other things that were impressive on the X-T1 were the quality of the EVF and the accuracy and ease-of use of the "split-image" manual focusing system.
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