I have a Leica DLUX2 and some time ago, me and another member did a side by side comparison of the DLUX2 and the Panasonic LX-1. Our conclusion was that the RAW images were identical when processed by the same converter (we tried multiple ones) but Panasonic jpgs were warmer etc. The jpgs were not important to me as I shoot all in RAW anyway.
I just read on dpreview.com in the Panasonic thread, an issue of RAW smearing due to noise reduction placed into the RAW file. Of course I did not believe this at all until I downloaded some Panasonic LX-1 and LX-2 files shot at the same targets. Now I am convinced that there is some sort of NR or processing applied to the Panasonic RAW files from the LX-2. So my question is whether or not the same holds true for the DLUX2 vs DLUX 3?
I am sending the link to the Panasonic files if anyone cares to see what I am talking about. The best examples are 638.RAW and 483.RAW
http://www.esnips.com/web/viztygerph...csPage=1#files
It has been stated that perhaps this is something to do with the sensor and some electrical interference noise. Not sure what to make of these results but they seem to be real and I just did not know by definition that one could place NR algorithms and still call it RAW
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