I will post my latest comparison. THese are shots of a piece of petrified wood. I used the canon 1DsmkIII with the leica 100mm macro and compared against the Hasselblad H2/leaf aptus 65 with the 120mm HC macro. I moved the camera to try to get the image area to be the same. The images were shot mirror lockup, with a remote shutter release f16, iso 100. I processed both in CS3 the same way except that for sharpening I used 0.25/0.5/0.25 for the leaf files and 0.5/0.5/0.5 for the canon. I did a very minimal levels adjustment to both and as the very last step I did a smart sharpen of 100/0.3 to both. The area of focus is just above the center green X i placed on the rock. The apparent DOF will be a little different due to moving the camera and the image size. First, I am showing both fields resized. The second images are 100% crops. The first in each set is the leaf then canon. I had similar results at f8. At f22, i got alot of diffraction issues with the leica. I apologize for the duplicate posts. I tried to edit and delete the text but for reasons uknown to me, I get the post with the embedded images deleted--not the text only posts