Michael H wrote:
Thought this might be fun. Q2 Monochrom full-frame and an extreme crop. The amount of detail in a crop this deep blows me away. When I was grabbing these shots, the guy on the other side of the inlet showed up taking pics. When he noticed me, he smiled for the picture...I only saw that zooming in to like 600%.
The original full resolution accessible in C1 is 9026x5720. The cropped image is 976x652. So that is what, around 10% of the original frame. No scaling on the cropped version.
I know it is "taboo" for some to crop, but I've experienced on the order of 300% with both the CL and the M240-P, as well. I think that part of that is the sensor detail, but the other is the glass, in what I refer to as "quality of transition". By that, I mean that as the projected image moves across the frame, it doesn't "fall apart" when you look deep into it.
I've lately been looking at some things that were also around 400% - 600% before the "jaggies" showed up. Yes, that can be quite nice to know that you can look at something that far into it. Granted, I'd not promoting a lot of printing things at 10% ... BUT, it gives me the confidence to know that if I do print larger or crop deeper, the image holds up really well.
Having that in my "hip pocket" means I feel liberated to "take the shot", even when I know I'm "too far" with my given mounted lens (which is typically my Elmarit 28/2.8 ... i.e. emulating the ethos of the Q, albeit a smaller / slower lens).
It is welcome to know that someone else has an appreciation for the "Q ethos" that Leica has embraced the quality of their glass / sensor to allow for the crop ... legacy, taboo or not.
Michael H wrote:
Thought this might be fun. Q2 Monochrom full-frame and an extreme crop. The amount of detail in a crop this deep blows me away. When I was grabbing these shots, the guy on the other side of the inlet showed up taking pics. When he noticed me, he smiled for the picture...I only saw that zooming in to like 600%.
The original full resolution accessible in C1 is 9026x5720. The cropped image is 976x652. So that is what, around 10% of the original frame. No scaling on the cropped version.
I know it is "taboo" for some to crop, but I've experienced on the order of 300% with both the CL and the M240-P, as well. I think that part of that is the sensor detail, but the other is the glass, in what I refer to as "quality of transition". By that, I mean that as the projected image moves across the frame, it doesn't "fall apart" when you look deep into it.
I've lately been looking at some things that were also around 400% - 600% before the "jaggies" showed up. Yes, that can be quite nice to know that you can look at something that far into it. Granted, I'd not promoting a lot of printing things at 10% ... BUT, it gives me the confidence to know that if I do print larger or crop deeper, the image holds up really well.
Having that in my "hip pocket" means I feel liberated to "take the shot", even when I know I'm "too far" with my given mounted lens (which is typically my Elmarit 28/2.8 ... i.e. emulating the ethos of the Q, albeit a smaller / slower lens).
It is welcome to know that someone else has an appreciation for the "Q ethos" that Leica has embraced the quality of their glass / sensor to allow for the crop ... legacy, taboo or not.
