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JEROME NOLAS: Hasselblad will burn in a photographic hell, that's for sure.
Not to sure about that.. some of the HC glass is stunning.. the hc-50mm mk2,the 120mm macro mk2.the HCD28mm and 24mm and 35-90mm are excellent.. and are only built by fujinon,they are designed by hasselblads Per Nordlund...
Rick Knepper: Let me guess (before I read the article): he used an iphone.
@HubertChen.. in fairness I think Rick Knepper's comment was meant to be humorous rather than sardonic...
bohdanz: I subscribed last month to CC, installed the new app updater - and don't see Lightroom 5 for downloading. Here we go, Adobe.
LR5 is not part of the CC...
One thing I would have liked to see in this version was the ability to output to a new layer with the name of the effect on it like Nik does..,maybe in the next update... otherwise a no brainer plug in for me...
One of my favourite plug-ins...
Yanko Kitanov: Interesting - now that everybody knows that the IQ of Leica cameras is no way better than that of alternatives costing times less - will people still be willing to pay for a plastic red dot only?
Everybody also knows that most nikkor glass is not good enough for the D800e..(I have one... ) Leica make great glass and the glass is a large chunk of what gives the look...
Benarm: Another step by Leica towards the legacy of Kodak and Polaroid. You can use past brand image and recognition only so much.
Leica ius a profitable business,and plenty of "real" photographers are using Leica camera's...
Foveon is great for lansacpe and architecture but I think it's a little harsh for portraits and fashion,the skin tones are less appealing than those from a Bayer sensor..
Scorpius1: Photoshop cs5,5.5 and 6 will work fine for many years,ACR is not worth worrying about,just use a good raw converter to output tiff's or even DNG's for use in photoshop... Capture one pro,DXO,iridient developer,photoninja etc will do an equal or better job of raw conversion,,,
If more people contacted DXO about adding support they may respond,their customer service is responsive .. I use Capture one pro myself and occasionally DXO,My point is that there is no need to panic about adobe's selfish behaviour,I know working pro's still using old versions of photoshop,incidentally Capture one pro could do with some improvement in terms of support for more lense's,the tool for removing C.A's is very limited compared to LR,if your lenses is not supported your out of luck... we as consumer's should pressure the various developers for the improvement's we require/want to see...
Photoshop cs5,5.5 and 6 will work fine for many years,ACR is not worth worrying about,just use a good raw converter to output tiff's or even DNG's for use in photoshop... Capture one pro,DXO,iridient developer,photoninja etc will do an equal or better job of raw conversion,,,
one of the big advantages of Aperture is that most of your photoshop and lightroom plug-ins will work perfectly with it...
QuarterToDoom: Missing
Corel After Shot (cross platform)
RawTherapee
DarkTable
Digikam
Also photoninja and photoline... PhotoNinja is an alternative for LR and Photoline is an alternative for Photoshop...
King Penguin: I use PS Elements.......what's the future for this?
@MARIN.. http://www.pl32.com/index.php
Rage Joe: Dear dpreview,
Could you, please, test all the best software for photographers, except Abobe's completely untrustworthy offerings.
Capture one pro is awesome,photoninja is pretty good too,on one perfect layers for effects or Nik...
Reilly Diefenbach: Or you could do the D800e and the 80-400VR and be a lot sharper for half the price :^)
How do you know it's sharper??
Like all the big canon lenses it will be cheaper on the street,give it a few months for the early adaptor's...
chlamchowder: The Nikon AF-S 200-400/4 VR II is $6750, and the TC-14E is $500. Together, they would cost $7520.
So, the question is, is the convenience of having the teleconverter built in worth $4480?
This is RRP,the street price will drop considerably as always.
BobYIL: In two years +50MP sensors will find their way into the DSLR bodies. With Phase One and Leaf Credo already offering 80MP MF sensors I wonder how Leica S-series will survive with the smallest size 37MP MF sensor.
@Joseph S ... CMOSIS will make it for them..
peevee1: Color depth and DR are easy. Take D800E, take a sequence of a few shots from a good tripod with mirror locked at base ISO (basically how the MF backs are used; and a few shots on D800E will still take less time than a single shot from those backs), stack them and you have as much DR, color depth and as little noise as you want.
Resolution is a different matter. For still subjects you can take many shots with tele lenses and combine them, just 2 shots in portrait orientation with D800 will have more resolution then the 60 mpix backs. For living moving subjects it will not work, although using 2 D800 (still so much cheaper) fired remotely at the same time might.
The bottleneck might be lenses though. Very few lenses can come close to resolving more than 20 mpix on D800. Are MF lenses any better?
"Are MF lenses any better?" Medium format lenses are much better.. the HC120m mk2 can resolve 120MP...
Spectro: that is a beautiful camera, I would only image what the Iq is like. Too bad I rather buy a car for the same price. How much tech and energy goes into a car compared to this little device is a joke. So this camera is more for bragging right and for a few professionals.
The other thing you should keep in mind is that these lenses take a lot of time and money to design,and if you think they're expensive look at Zeiss Master Anamorphics at $40,000 each... These S lenses are made and assembled by hand to very tight tolerance's,the waiting lists can be very long..