Hi All,
My friend got a new Canon 1D3 and we were curious to see how it compared to the Leica DMR which we both have. I have posted infrequently here at OPF since having my second child, but figured this information might be useful to people considering the new canon body. I was intrigued by the higher bit processing of the 1D3 and wondered if it might be good enough to cause me to replace my Leica DMR (digital back).
Test Method: For the test pictures were take of a Stouffer t41 transmissive film mounted on a lightbox using both bodies and the same lens (leica 100mm macro) on both cameras. Exposure was carefully set to get the lightest setting to register 250-255 in the computer. Lightroom 1.1 was used to convert the raw files and crop the images but no adjustments were made. Imatest Pro software was used to analyze the data and generate the reports shown below.
Results: You can see from the charts that the 1d3 edged out the DMR in total DR by a hair 12.7 to 12.6 stops, but the really useful numbers are the low, med, and high where the DMR still has roughly a 1.5 stop edge over the new camera.
Canon 1D3
Leica DMR
Conclusion: For now, I am going to keep my DMR
Regards,
Eric Hiss
My friend got a new Canon 1D3 and we were curious to see how it compared to the Leica DMR which we both have. I have posted infrequently here at OPF since having my second child, but figured this information might be useful to people considering the new canon body. I was intrigued by the higher bit processing of the 1D3 and wondered if it might be good enough to cause me to replace my Leica DMR (digital back).
Test Method: For the test pictures were take of a Stouffer t41 transmissive film mounted on a lightbox using both bodies and the same lens (leica 100mm macro) on both cameras. Exposure was carefully set to get the lightest setting to register 250-255 in the computer. Lightroom 1.1 was used to convert the raw files and crop the images but no adjustments were made. Imatest Pro software was used to analyze the data and generate the reports shown below.
Results: You can see from the charts that the 1d3 edged out the DMR in total DR by a hair 12.7 to 12.6 stops, but the really useful numbers are the low, med, and high where the DMR still has roughly a 1.5 stop edge over the new camera.
Canon 1D3
Leica DMR
Conclusion: For now, I am going to keep my DMR
Regards,
Eric Hiss
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