4 megapixels + Summicron
A re-visit to my early digital past to show how great a small resolution camera (in modern day terms) can still cut the mustard in terms of picture quality.
This was shot with a Panasonic DMS-LC5, a 4 megapixel unit with an optical finder, and a Leica Summicron (f2 aperture) lens. The camera dates from 2002, and was also available in a slightly different skin as a Leica Digilux 1. The biggest drawbacks were that it offered no RAW image option, only JPEGs and TIFFs, and if you were after the best quality, the write speed on TIFFs was slow. And there have been no firmware upgrades ever for it...
I look back and wonder why we are racing to huge pixel densities and mediocre image quality?
Lake Luzern, Switzerland.
4 megapixels + Summicron
A re-visit to my early digital past to show how great a small resolution camera (in modern day terms) can still cut the mustard in terms of picture quality.
This was shot with a Panasonic DMS-LC5, a 4 megapixel unit with an optical finder, and a Leica Summicron (f2 aperture) lens. The camera dates from 2002, and was also available in a slightly different skin as a Leica Digilux 1. The biggest drawbacks were that it offered no RAW image option, only JPEGs and TIFFs, and if you were after the best quality, the write speed on TIFFs was slow. And there have been no firmware upgrades ever for it...
I look back and wonder why we are racing to huge pixel densities and mediocre image quality?
Lake Luzern, Switzerland.