Hum. I'm going to disagree. I think the newer version has a lot more going for
it than the older shot. There's a continuous tonality that's missing in the E-1
shot, and what to my eye is a more faithful rendition of the bird. But that's
just me.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I've had several favorable comments on the "portrait" of our resident
> male mockingbird, taken with the X-E1 and Leica Telyt-R 250/4. Three
> years ago, almost to the day, I photographed the then resident male. I
> can't say whether or not it was the same bird. The interesting thing
> about that image is that it was made with the 5MP Olympus E-1 and a
> Ross/London lens from the 1890s. To me, at screen viewing size, the two
> images are roughly comparable in quality.
>
> Maybe gear is just a way of finding an image.................
>
> January 2011 image:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mocking+Bird.jpg.html
>
> January 2014 image:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mockingbird+744.jpg.html
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