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[Nikon 2]

16 bits per color channel in the Leica! We need to understand how the bits are employed differently, to understand what that actually translates to...does 14 v 16bit matter?, if there is a relevant difference in dynamic range between the two. For example, using Leica information...

For the Leica S,

• Leica documentation (August 2015) states: Dynamic range: 13 stops, Colour depth: 16 bits per pixel https://www.bhphotovideo.com/lit_files/103859.pdf?BI=734&KBID=1035
• Yet other Leica documenstation (Spet 2014) also states: Dynamic Range Up to 15 f-stops. Color Resolution 14 Bit per pixel. https://leica-camera.com/sites/default/files/pm-91418-Datenblatt_S-Typ-007_e_AP.PDF

How does the same product have fewer bits of DR (14 vs 16) yet achieve 1 stop wider dynamic range (15), in the same Leica S typ 007 with difference of 2 bits of width?! One needs insider understanding how the 16-bit standard digital word is actually allocated.

Those spec sheets are from two different years…

 

[Nikon 2]

I’ll take a non alcoholic Heineken, make that a Beck’s please…

 

[BrianShaw]

I’m eagerly awaiting the Cliffs Notes summary of this thread!

 

[wiltw]

Those spec sheets are from two different years…

...yeah, and so what would be the explanation for the wide difference in specs for same product (in consective years, 11 months apart?!)
Can we assume the first one was too boastful, and the later one is more realistic?

 

[Pieter12]

All this dithering over specs, the sources are not even about the OP's camera, they are for the Leica S 007--a totally different camera with a much larger sensor than the M, and the S2 (the Overgaard reference) has a CCD sensor, not CMOS.

 

[Nikon 2]

...yeah, and so what would be the explanation for the wide difference in specs for same product (in consective years, 11 months apart?!)
Can we assume the first one was too boastful, and the later one is more realistic?

Ask Leica or Lieca…

 

[Nikon 2]

All this dithering over specs, the sources are not even about the OP's camera, they are for the Leica S 007--a totally different camera with a much larger sensor than the M, and the S2 (the Overgaard reference) has a CCD sensor, not CMOS.

We should all be ashamed…

 

[wiltw]

All this dithering over specs, the sources are not even about the OP's camera, they are for the Leica S 007--a totally different camera with a much larger sensor than the M, and the S2 (the Overgaard reference) has a CCD sensor, not CMOS.

All this dithering due to this sequence...

1. questioning the continuing need for ETTR in view of the wide DR of cameras (yes because 14-bit 20 years ago has not changed, it is still 14-bit)
2. ...spec sheet posted by OP for OP's product, showing 16-bits
3. speculation about the reality of the number of bits portrayed in above Leica literature, in view of changing and conflicting Leica literature for a different Leica product

...bringing us back to the question #1, if or if NOT that the OP camera spec obviates his need to employ ETTR in his shooting.

 

[Nikon 2]

All this dithering due to this sequence...

1. questioning the continuing need for ETTR in view of the wide DR of cameras (yes because 14-bit 20 years ago has not changed, it is still 14-bit)
2. ...spec sheet posted by OP for OP's product, showing 16-bits
3. speculation about the reality of the number of bits portrayed in above Leica literature, in view of changing and conflicting Leica literature for a different Leica product

...bringing us back to the question #1, if or if NOT that the OP camera spec obviates his need to employ ETTR in his shooting.

You might have won the debate with that, I will check the judges determination…

Here comes the judge…

 

[Nikon 2]

All the judges are from Wetzlar and all shoot Leica so it should be a non biased decision…