Need a new shootout

[John Camp]

Perhaps the ownership here should start thinking about putting together a new shootout - like, next summer, perhaps. If the new Nikons come through (the mysterious BIG one, whatever that is, and the D3x, if that's different than the BIG one), the new S2 Leica, the new 5D, one of the biggest MF backs. A lot has happened since the last shootout. Should be possible to rent some of this stuff by next summer...or borrow it from the manufacturers...but it will take planning.

And what I'd also like to see, with the new Photoshop, is to get very similar shots from all the cameras and then pass them on to a Photoshop expert and enhance each shot to show it in its best possible form, and then post crops or even full files for printing, or perhaps sell a portfolio of "best possible" prints based on the tests.

JC

[dalethorn]

Perhaps the ownership here should start thinking about putting together a new shootout - like, next summer, perhaps. If the new Nikons come through (the mysterious BIG one, whatever that is, and the D3x, if that's different than the BIG one), the new S2 Leica, the new 5D, one of the biggest MF backs. A lot has happened since the last shootout. Should be possible to rent some of this stuff by next summer...or borrow it from the manufacturers...but it will take planning.

And what I'd also like to see, with the new Photoshop, is to get very similar shots from all the cameras and then pass them on to a Photoshop expert and enhance each shot to show it in its best possible form, and then post crops or even full files for printing, or perhaps sell a portfolio of "best possible" prints based on the tests.

JC
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This sounds great, but a lot of folks object to the post processing when comparing cameras.  Might it be possible to tweak camera settings until the JPEG's have similar qualities, or tweak several different installs of RAW developer in advance, so the RAW's developed by each install's tweaked defaults would have similar qualities, without manual post processing?