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SDQH vs Sony A7 shooting experience

Started Aug 5, 2018 | Discussions thread
saltydogstudios
saltydogstudios Senior Member • Posts: 2,451
Re: SDQH vs Sony A7 shooting experience

DMillier wrote:

How do you explain that technically? A mono sensor is the purest, highest quality sensor you have. Basically a single layer foveon without any of the problems. I find it very difficult to believe the foveon can out perform a mono sensor because of the sensor.

I was surprised by it too & it's far from definitive - perhaps I was just looking at bad samples.

Here's two examples - a photo I took on the DP2M.

SOOC JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgw800i84pg1246/DP2M0010.JPG?dl=0

X3F

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f82v7db5dhzqsrt/DP2M0009.X3F?dl=0

Sample Leica Monocrom images.

https://www.photographyblog.com/previews/leica_m_monochrom_typ_246_photos/

This actually looks really sharp to me - perhaps I was just looking at bad samples on the internet before.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fuji Monochrome Converted Images - you have to open these RAW files in Raw Therapee or Dark Table or similar where you can choose the Demosaicing algorithm - Adobe will try to demosaice them.

https://maxmax.com/maincamerapage/monochrome-cameras/fuji-monochrome

This is the one I was disappointed in. The last image of the street, if you zoom in on the truck there's a clear pattern going on of some sort.

Ken Wheeler's samples from the same (let's not comment on him and just talk about the photos).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/134746128@N05/36280174723/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/134746128@N05/36280157573/in/dateposted/

I mean - let's face it. I'm not buying a Leica M anytime soon (too much $$ and don't want to manual focus all the time). So the $2000 monochrome converted Fuji was my main option for a dedicated monochrome camera that was faster than the Sigma so I looked at those samples more seriously.

But yes - upon further research the Leica M is very sharp indeed.

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