Celloman
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Got mine a few weeks ago.. it is fun!
Hello everybody, this is my first post in this fantastic forum. Nice to meet you all!
I received 2 days ago my rd1-s from Matsuita Store in Japan; absolutely amazed how can this camera with its "jubilated" 6.1MP sensor achieve the most of a Leica lens 🙂 . I tested an A3 print from a direct from camera jpeg file, iso200 resampled to 300 dpi and the result was incredibily good in terms of sharpness and color rendition.
I used a summicron 35 2.0 ASPH to make these tests. The only "mmm...but" I have is about the expected film-like appearance. Since I recongnize the quality in every detail that lens brought I don't see that film feel that I saw in most of the photographs made with this camera. I know I'm a novice using the R-D1s and maybe there's some configuration to do in the camera itself ( such a contrast, saturation levels, etc. ) or in the post-processing the raw file.
I read in some review that modern high contrast lenses -as the summicron 35 ASPH - are too "crispy" for the r-d1s and does not have the ability to get all the power this lens can bring up. Mmm...Maybe it's a little bit true but I did not see big problems at this moment in the test I made but again, I don't feel the film-like in my first shots.
So, That's only a feeling ? I noticed most r-d1s users have Voigtländer lenses and these pieces could brought the film feeling that I'm looking for - the same, or almost the same, perception I get of the ektachrome slides made with my Leica m6 and the same lens - .
Thank you all 🙂
Jose.