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Here are a couple examples of the Leica Digital shooting football. They were shot at 200 ISO, with a 400mm lens.

http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L1020625.jpg


http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020671.jpg


Edited by robsteve on Sep 24, 2005 at 10:42 PM GMT

Sep 24, 2005 at 09:15 PM
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Beautiful!

Sep 24, 2005 at 11:09 PM
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Very nice. And I am an admitted Canon biggot.

Sep 24, 2005 at 11:50 PM
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Very nice indeed, love the color and clarity. IS this the R8 or R9 paired with the DMR back . . . I think thats how it works, is that accurate?

Sep 25, 2005 at 12:03 AM
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what is the FPS for the DMR? While I feel it is a step back going to manual focus, the dynamic range of the DMR is awesome

Sep 25, 2005 at 12:08 AM
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The DMR is mounted to my R9. It is supposed to be 2fps. It seems at least that.

Here are a couple more. The shadows seem to have more detail compared to my 1D Mk II. I also had the Canon 400mm f2.8 IS and from f3.5 or so it was as sharp or sharper than the Leica. The Leica is sharper at f2.8 and still gives that 3d look though.

http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020537.jpg



http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020592.jpg



http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020628.jpg



http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020647.jpg




Sep 25, 2005 at 12:48 AM
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wow

Sep 25, 2005 at 02:08 AM
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I adjusted the last image. It was a bit light when I posted it.

I also noticed that when you get the focus right, you can see the fine details in the jersey material.

Edited by robsteve on Sep 26, 2005 at 08:30 PM GMT

Sep 25, 2005 at 01:47 PM
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robsteve wrote:
I adjusted the last image. It was a bit light when I posted it.

I also noticed that when you get the focus right, you can see the fine details in the jersey material. Here is a crop into the second photo, with a tiny bit of CS2 smart sharpen, 100% and .4 pixels



That has always been my guide with the MkII. When I can see the threads or fabric details in the uniforms I know AF is spot-on. :)



Sep 25, 2005 at 01:51 PM
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Stunning shots. Thanks for sharing.

Sep 25, 2005 at 04:59 PM
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Wow, the colors are so rich and the images are so sharp! Very impressive...

Sep 25, 2005 at 08:30 PM
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The Leica DMR certainly seems to have great color and dynamic range. These images were straight out of the camera, a couple with a touch of color balance adjustment. Fred will not be selling me his Velvia Vision plugin for this camera :-)

Sep 26, 2005 at 07:01 PM
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What about some 100% crops?
~Mike

Oct 10, 2005 at 04:05 PM
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I would like to see some 100% crops as well.

Oct 10, 2005 at 04:23 PM
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Here is 100% from one of the shots posted. Is it sharp enough?

http://www.robsteve.com/FM/L1020671CRP.jpg




Oct 10, 2005 at 04:31 PM
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Looks good for 400mm and wide open.
m.

Oct 10, 2005 at 04:34 PM
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Rob not to Knock the Leica but it looks like there is artifacts in there. Did you save this at less then level 8-9 jpg?

I really am impressed, in fact so impressed I feel sorry for my pidley Canon.

LoL

~Mike

Oct 12, 2005 at 04:46 AM
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Mike:

If you have adobe CS2, I can send you a link to download the RAW DNG file to look at.

Oct 14, 2005 at 02:50 AM
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Excellent shots, keep doing what your doing. Its working.

Oct 14, 2005 at 05:37 AM
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impressive! thanks for posting

Oct 21, 2005 at 11:11 PM
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Great images and color. Thanks for posting this.

Oct 22, 2005 at 12:06 AM
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I just bought Raw Shooter Premium and though I would share a sample from it.

It seems to be a really fast RAW processor. While it seems to have no problems with my EOS files, I bought it to have an option for the DMR generated DNG files I was finding Adobe Camera a bit slow when processing a bunch of jpegs from the RAW DNG files. Raw Shooter Premium seems to be much faster and has a better set of controls, including curves.

Here is one of my shots from earlier in the thread, but processed in Raw Shooter Premium. Below it is what I posted at the top of this thread.

http://www.robsteve.com/FM/L1020671-04.jpg

Raw Shooter Premium converted DNG

http://www.robsteve.com/DMR/L-1020671.jpg

Imacon's FlexColor, but I didn't spend a lot of time on getting the color balance right when this was posted originally.

Oct 30, 2005 at 11:53 PM

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